Time Out of Joint

Name: Time Out of Joint
Rating: 3.857142857142857 (7 reviews)
Author: Dick, Philip K.
ISBN: 9780375719271

by Dick, Philip K.

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256 pages36 editions2002Vintage BooksISBN 9780375719271

Puzzles -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.Space and time -- Fiction.Suburban life -- Fiction.

About this book

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests. It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. And once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry.

Publication Details

Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2002
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780375719271
Language: en
Editions: 36

About Dick, Philip K.

Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS. Source and more information: [Wikipedia (EN)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick)