Description
A daring, intimate portrait of Philip K. Dick, told from the inside with the same freedom and empathy that animates his fiction. Tracing his strange odyssey from a traumatic childhood marked by loss to the loneliness of his later years, this narrative follows the forces—personal, psychological, and imaginative—that shaped the writer’s singular vision. More than a conventional biography, it explores how creativity can become both refuge and compulsion, and how identity is continually rewritten by memory, desire, and fear. With Emmanuel Carrère’s distinctive blend of literary reportage and psychological insight, the book invites readers to see Dick’s life as a living extension of his work—unpredictable, haunted, and profoundly human.
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paperback
Picador
Published May 12, 2005
336 pages
ISBN: 9780312424510
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First Published
2002
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for I Am Alive and You Are Dead by Emmanuel Carrère.