Tachyon Publications: The Search for Philip K. Dick, Anne R. Dick


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			Anne R. Dick

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	Anne R. Dick is Philip K. Dick's third wife and an accomplished writer and artist in her own right. She was intimately involved in her husband's creative life, serving as his first reader during the period in which he wrote the novels that made him world famous. Her bronze and silver jewelry has been sold in museum stores and galleries throughout the United States and abroad; Philip K. Dick accurately chronicled the beginnings of her jewelry business in his most famous novel, The Man in the High Castle. Having retired from jewelrymaking after 47 years, she continues to write novels and poetry. Anne Dick lives in Point Reyes, California, in the same house where she lived with Philip K. Dick and raised her four daughters.

The Search for Philip K. Dick

by Anne R. Dick

Trade paperback / 288p. / October 2010 / 978-1-61696-000-1

Brilliant, talented, and charismatic, Philip K. Dick had it all. Already a successful young writer with a highly promising career, in 1958 he met his intellectual and romantic soulmate, his soon-to-be third wife Anne Rubenstein.

To his new family and friends, Dick appeared cheerful and loving. But behind the facade of an untroubled life was a man struggling with inner demons. Slowly and always in denial, Anne watched his disconnect from reality and witnessed his increasing paranoia. Philip K. Dick had begun his descent into madness.

In this riveting memoir and biography, Anne Dick creates an extraordinary portrait of one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Through this no-holds-barred account, she reveals the compelling genius and private hell of Philip K. Dick, for better and for worse.

"...invaluable for Dick fans and scholars because it's told by the one person he was close to at an important turning point in his career."
-The New York Times

"Anne's detailed account of her years with Philip K. Dick is a must read for anyone discovering the autobiographical elements in his writing. No other biography gives the reader as strong a sense of how he crafted his fiction, where he got his characters, and what made him tick. Parts of Anne's memoir are instantly recognizable to PKD's readers as they describe the inspiration for many of his most bizarre fictional scenes"
-David Gill, San Francisco State University

"Besides being a remarkably accurate and life like picture of the man, it is also a rattling good tale, like a real-life detective story."
-Ray Nelson, co-author (with Philip K. Dick) of The Ganymede Takeover

"The secret of Phil Dick's greatness, as with so many other great men, is his... [third] wife, Anne. You can see her influence in the development of his novels, their increasing awareness of the human/family/sexual element. Most SF writers simply didn't pay attention to such things, which are the entire concern of mainstream fiction. Dick was almost alone among the SF writers of his day in trying to write mainstream novels himself. And what is their constant theme? His battles with, and bafflement by, and love of Anne, the Other who never left his thoughts..."
-Thomas M. Disch, author of Camp Concentration and The Wall of America

"An investigation full of epiphanies, a narration of absolute vividness that could only be inspired by a passionate love, a book that transports us to a indissoluble past, more true than our own present."
-Miguel Diaz Fernandez, author of "Vestigia"

"Anne R. Dick offers a compelling look at a giant of science fiction...a pleasure to read" -Valley Advocate