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A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick

A Scanner Darkly

Vintage Books (Dec 03, 1991)
9780679736653
| Paperback
278 pages | 132 x 203 mm | English
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification PS3554.I3 .S28 1991
LC Control No. 91050090

Genre

  • Didactic Fiction
  • Science Fiction

Subject

  • Comics & Graphic Novels / General
  • Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes
  • Drug Abuse
  • Drug Abuse/ Fiction
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General

Plot

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself.Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.

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