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When Roger and Virginia Lindhal enroll their son Gregg in Mrs. Alt’s Los Padres Valley School in the mountains of Southern California, their marriage is already in deep trouble. Then the Lindhals meet Chic and Liz Bonner, whose two sons also board at Mrs. Alt’s school. The meeting is a catalyst for a complicated series of emotions and traumas, set against the backdrop of suburban Los Angeles in the early fifties. The buildup of emotional intensity and the finely observed characterizations are hallmarks of Philip K. Dick’s work.
This is a realistic novel filled with details of everyday life and skillfully told from three points of view. It is powerful, eloquent, and gripping.
In ''Puttering About in a Small Land,'' though, the characterizations, the dialogue, the plotting are mostly inept in telling of a dismal marriage and an adulterous love affair in Los Angeles in the 1950's. The reader is faced with page after page of meaningless details....Dick has been praised as ''a visionary among the charlatans'' and ''our own home-grown Borges.'' This publishing gaffe will do nothing to mar the reputation earned by his nearly 40 other books. -- New York Times
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