Puttering About in a Small Land by Philip K. Dick

Paladin Books, London, 1987.

Good condition.

When Virgina and Roger Lindahl drove from Washington to Los Angeles to do gruelling shift work in munitions factories, they were pursuing a very ordinary dream. Roger was on top of the new technology of Television, and by the end of the war they'd raked together enough of a nest egg to think about starting their own business. But Roger was restless - and he resented his wife's patronising attitude to his mid-western farm background. When Virginia's mother followed them from Maryland, only the prospect of his own TV store stopped him from taking off. Later they met Chic and Liz Bonner. Chic was hard-headed and wanted to buy into the business. Liz was vague, otherworldly - and Roger was fascinated by her...

Philip K. Dick's beautiful, posthumously published novel of the obsessive underside of ordinary aspirations is a hitherto undiscovered masterpiece of American literature.

Subtle, excellent, memorable - Kirkus Review

Most perceptive about the relationships between men and women... Dick crafts the story with such skill that, though the conclusion has the inevitability of a Greek tragedy, it is fresh and unpredictable. - Publishers Weekly

Front cover illustration by Neil Breedon