Full name: Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick

Author: Lawrence Sutin Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780786716234 0786716231

"The only biography I've ever read that's as exciting as a spy novel . . . Phil Dick's life was as weird and mysterious as any of his science fiction books."--Robert Anton Wilson With thirty-eight books currently in print and seven of his novels and short stories adapted into blockbuster films, Philip K. Dick is recognized worldwide as one of our time's greatest and most influential novelists. Lawrence Sutin's Divine Invasions, acknowledged by the Dick family as the official Philip K. Dick biography, illuminates the life of the man who loosed the bonds of the science-fiction genre and profoundly influenced such writers as Pynchon, Delillo, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Lethem. Absorbing, beautifully written, and profoundly revealing, Divine Invasions is a must-read for Dick fans and for all fans of contemporary fiction and film. Similar books: I Am Alive and You Are Dead by Emmanuel Carrere Dreamer of Dune by Brian Herbert Do What Thou Wilt by Lawrence Sutin The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller Edgar Rice Burroughs by Richard A. Lupoff Flannery by Brad Gooch May Sarton by Margot Peters Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster Invisible Writer by Greg Johnson Mary Renault by David Sweetman Uncle Mame by Eric Myers In Search of J.D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton Penelope Fitzgerald by Hermione Lee Albert Camus by Herbert R. Lottman Truman Capote by George Plimpton Saint-Exupery by Stacy Schiff The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson