Confessions of a Crap Artist - Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.): A Chronicle of Unverified Scientific Fact, 1945-1959

Boston / New York: Mariner / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First printing of 2012 reissue. Brand new. 248 pp. "One of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack's murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack's, but a great deal uglier.