- Hardcover: 221 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books (29 April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765316951
- ISBN-13: 978-0765316950
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,538,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter store and he leaps at the suggestion. Then he realizes that Susan was his teacher when he was in fifth grade. In spite of that, they are married within days. And then the odd compulsions and instabilities start to interfere with their plans. Milton Lumky, the paper salesman in whose area they live, is uneasy about their future . . .
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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.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
During the 50s, PKD tried to establish himself as a mainstream writer. His litterary skill and his eye for details, empathy for the common man and ability to associate and connect situations served as well in the mainstream as in the SF-field. Yes, we do miss the opccasional androids and blob from outer space, but in this novel as in many of the other we get to experience the unique PKD "psycho-analytic" perspective tearing through the fabrics of every day life and relationships between common men and women. If you're skeptical to SF, I use to say that PKD could be a good starting point, since his similarly fantastic perspectives bridge the gap of the genres. Now, regarding this novel, if you're a hardcore SF-fan who never reads common fiction, this is a good starting point. After all, the legend only wrote 8 mainstream novels, and everyone should try a couple of them out.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Worth Your Time
10 Oct 2003
Format:Hardcover
I'd advise only reading this if you're like me, you enjoy Philip K. Dick's writing, you've read a fair few of his books including 'Confessions of a Crap Artist', and you hope to read all his works (and steer clear of stuff like 'The Ganymede Takeover').
'In Milton Lumky Territory' may not be as exciting and quirky a read as 'Confessions of a Crap Artist' but it is a good read nonetheless and it's a shame that this was languishing as a manuscript on one of Dick's bookshelves until after his death.
It's set in the 50's, it has a purposeful main character in his mid-twenties who has that same horrible awareness of bad interpersonal situations that can be found in 'Confessions of a Crap Artist'. It's a good quality novel that you'll look back on and like.
'In Milton Lumky Territory' may not be as exciting and quirky a read as 'Confessions of a Crap Artist' but it is a good read nonetheless and it's a shame that this was languishing as a manuscript on one of Dick's bookshelves until after his death.
It's set in the 50's, it has a purposeful main character in his mid-twenties who has that same horrible awareness of bad interpersonal situations that can be found in 'Confessions of a Crap Artist'. It's a good quality novel that you'll look back on and like.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Attention must be paid
8 Jun 2004
Format:Hardcover
This realist novel, written in 1958 and not published till 1985, is a concise, ironic story, set in Idaho, of the marriage of Bruce, a young man, to Susan, his former fifth grade teacher, and his devastating experiences in trying to run her business. Milton Lumky, a dumpy, red-faced salesman with a penchant for outrageous remarks, is not the main character in the novel, but he has center stage whenever he is on. Dick wrote In Milton Lumky Territory under the influence of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Both works deal with the tragedy of the common man, making the point, as Dick quoted in an interview, that "attention must be paid to this man." Like Willy Loman, Milton Lumky is a man of essential goodness who has been beaten down by what he has come to see as the degrading nature of his job. His Idaho is a provincial world of small towns, small minds, and a certain unrelieved nastiness. The only reprieve from the dreariness of this barren land and culture is to be found in the felicities of the heart, which Bruce and Susan take refuge in at the end when they move out of Milton Lumky territory.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Please believe me Lord Wittgenstein
5 Mar 2011
Format:Hardcover
First read all Dick's science fiction starting with Ubiq and then Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Then read his many post-death published works (huh?- how did that happen?). Then read In Milton Lumky Terrritory and realize that it was all there at the beginning but you couldn't have noticed it then. The difficulty, the humor, the unknowability- the real conflated with the unreal and surreal- the confusion of how reality such as it is, is (how is it?). Life, space, time. How all is a symbol for all and there is no such thing as itself. As you read Lumky realize its conection to the scene in Ubiq where a table disappears and a paper falls to the earth with the word' 'table' written on it. Then at the end of your reading admit that you don't know whether all the time you've existed did exist or only seemed to (but to whom?). Horselover Fat(see Valis)- the true genius of 20th century letters. Oh if you've time- see the massive number of movies based on his work- from Alien to Bladerunner to Eternal Sunshine to Minority Report to Vanilla Sky to The Truman Show to Total Recall to Scanners to Next ... to Black Swan(?) He's great- good luck- but it will take work and many years. Too bad if you don't live that long but at least you started.
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