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VALIS & Later Novels

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VALIS & Later Novels

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Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Library of America, 2009
Series: Library of America P. K. Dick Collection: Book 3
Book Type: Omnibus
Genre: Science-Fiction
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Synopsis

This volume gathering the best novels of Dick's final years, when religious revelation, always important in his work, became a dominant and irresistible theme.

In A Maze of Death (1970), a darkly speculative mystery that foreshadows Dick's final novels, colonists on the planet Delmak-O try to determine the nature of the God-or "Mentufacturer"-who plots their destiny.

The late masterpiece VALIS (1981) is a novelistic reworking of "the events of 2-3-74," when Dick's life was transformed by what he believed was a mystical revelation. It is a harrowing self-portrait of a man torn between conflicting interpretations of what might be gnostic illumination or psychotic breakdown.

The Divine Invasion (1981), a sequel to VALIS, is a powerful exploration of gnostic insight and its human consequences.

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), Dick's last novel, is by turns theological thriller, roman à clef, and disenchanted portrait of late 1970s California life, based loosely on the controversial career of Bishop James Pike-a close friend and kindred spirit.


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