Four Novels of the 1960s
Dave Itzkoff reviewing the new anthology of Philip K. Dick's work titled "Four Novels of the 1960s" at The New York Times writes
Most portraits of Dick (who died in 1982 at the age of 53) want to force him into one of several prefabricated categories: the all-purpose visionary who anticipated everything from the Internet to the Tiananmen Square massacre; the five-times-married hedonist(...)
"Four Novels of the 1960s" rescues the author from his biographical trappings (save for some pages of chronology at the back) and forces you to consider him solely on the basis of his prose. And on Page 1, it confronts you with the single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career, “The Man in the High Castle.”
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