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  • In Milton Lumky Territory

  • By: Philip K. Dick
  • Narrated by: Luke Daniels
  • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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In Milton Lumky Territory

By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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Publisher's summary

In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson states that "In Milton Lumky Territory...is probably the best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism." Dick, on the other hand, says in his foreword, "This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too."

Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western United States and a psychic terrain: the world and worldview of the traveling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco, to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under the spell of an attractive older woman (who used to be his school teacher) and Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink into the whirlpool of Bruce's immature personal obsessions and misperceptions.

A compassionate and ironic portrayal of three characters enmeshed in a sticky web of everyday events, in a tension between love and money, with a basic failure to communicate, In Milton Lumky Territory stands out among Dick's early works.

©1985 The Estate of Philip K. Dick (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Bleak but beautuful slice of life story.

I only wish it was longer. Great narrator. Realistic characters. PKD at his most astute.

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Better than I remember it

I think a couple of things have been expunged from this book. Leaving them out changes it from a book with two unacceptable parts to an okay book.

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