The Broken Bubble

Philip K. Dick

Gollancz, 2014 - California - 246 pages

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.

About the author

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Broken Bubble
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Publisher: Gollancz, 2014
• ISBN: 0575133082, 9780575133082
• Length: 246 pages