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San Francisco in the 1950s, a turning point in American culture: the rise of rock and roll and the teenage lifestyle. Jim Briskin is a disc jockey on radio KOIF. He's still in love with his ex-wife, Pat - even though she's about to marry someone else at the station - and she's vacillating between them. But when he takes her to visit the desperate household of two of his teenage fans, she seduces the boy into abandoning his pregnant wife - who then claims Jim as her protector and support. And all around them the cultural upheaval of postwar American society is manifest, by teenage outcasts who have a remote-controlled Nazi automobile they use to bump into the rich kids' cars; by Thisbe Holt, the dancer who performs for conventioneers by stuffing herself inside a clear plastic bubble; by blaring used-car ads and the conflict between generations. Dick gives us a vision of redemption tempered with layered ironies and a lot of real humour.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Science fiction

• Full title: Broken Bubble
• Author: Dick Philip K
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780575133082
• ISBN: 0575133082
• ID: 02393822
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Weight: 234 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 132 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. June 2014

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