{"product_id":"exegesis-of-philip-k-9780575132443","title":"Exegesis of Philip K","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the poignant  terrifying  ludicrous  and brilliant. \"The Exegesis \"is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen  but Dick wasnt a legend and he wasnt mad. He lived among us  and was a genius.\"--Jonathan Lethem Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes  journal entries  letters  and story sketches  The \"Exegesis of Philip K. Dick \"is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception  the malleability of space and time  and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem  this will be the definitive presentation of Dicks brilliant  and epic  final work. In \"The\"\"Exegesis \" Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called \"2-3-74 \" a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe \"transformed into information.\" In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages  Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit  adding to  revising  and discarding theory after theory  mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred  and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment  Jackson and Lethem serve as guides  taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dicks life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665899446325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0575132442","price":103.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780575132443.jpg?v=1782413531","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/exegesis-of-philip-k-9780575132443","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}