Confessions of a Crap Artist

Confessions of a Crap Artist by Dick, Philip K.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780679741145.

Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dicks 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 Jacks 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 Jacks, but a great deal uglier.