Title The broken bubble / Philip K. Dick.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	F DICK	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials	DICK, PHILIP K.	Check Shelf

Edition	1st ed.
Description	246 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	Set in San Francisco in 1956, The Broken Bubble traces the ups and downs and ins and outs of four characters who are not quite sure of the lives they're living. Jim Briskin, local radio DJ, his ex-wife Pat, the young married couple Art and Rachel Emmanual, all are acutely observed and sympathetically portrayed. Briskin is suspended from his job for refusing to read a particularly repellant ad, while Art foolishly gets mixed up in a group of absurd would-be revolutionaries. As they all get entangled and not quite disentangled with each other, it becomes apparent they are seeking only, in typical Dick fashion, to live more or less happily, if not ever after, then at least for a while. Modest as it may seem, it is an ambition very difficult to achieve.
Subject	California -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
	Disc jockeys -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.
	Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
	San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
	Happiness -- Fiction.
	Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.
	Disc jockeys. (OCoLC)fst00894814
	Dysfunctional families. (OCoLC)fst01728523
	Happiness. (OCoLC)fst00951160
	Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Nineteen fifties. (OCoLC)fst01037791
	California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
	California -- San Francisco. (OCoLC)fst01204481
Genre/Form	Psychological fiction.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
ISBN	1557100128
	9781557100122

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