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In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson states that In Milton Lumky Territoryis probably the best of Dicks realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist, and calls it a bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism. Dick, on the other hand, says in his foreword, This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too.
Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western United States and a psychic terrain: the world and worldview of the traveling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco, to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under the spell of an attractive older woman (who used to be his school teacher) and Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink into the whirlpool of Bruces immature personal obsessions and misperceptions.
A compassionate and ironic portrayal of three characters enmeshed in a sticky web of everyday events, in a tension between love and money, with a basic failure to communicate, In Milton Lumky Territory stands out among Dicks early works.
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eAudio Download - Immediately Available
- Format:eAudiobook MP3
- Run-time:7 hours 30 mins
- File size:313.49MB
- Publisher:Brilliance Audio
- Publication Date:10/05/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781531835439
