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In Milton Lumky Territory<br />
PHILIP K. DICK<br />
A novel about a sales territory and about states <strong>of</strong> mind<br />
In The Novels <strong>of</strong> Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson states that<br />
“In Milton Lumky Territory…is probably the best <strong>of</strong> Dick’s realist<br />
novels aside from Confessions <strong>of</strong> a Crap Artist,” and calls it a<br />
“bitter indictment <strong>of</strong> the effects <strong>of</strong> capitalism.” Dick, on the other<br />
hand, in his forward says, “This is actually a very funny book, and a<br />
good one, too.”<br />
Milton Lumky territory is both an area <strong>of</strong> the western United<br />
States and a psychic terrain: the world and world-view <strong>of</strong> the<br />
travelling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with<br />
some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our<br />
hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco,<br />
to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search<br />
<strong>of</strong> a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under<br />
the spell <strong>of</strong> an attractive older woman (once his school teacher)<br />
and Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory<br />
is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink<br />
into the whirlpool <strong>of</strong> Bruce’s immature personal obsessions<br />
and misperceptions.<br />
A compassionate and ironic portrayal <strong>of</strong> three characters enmeshed<br />
in a sticky web <strong>of</strong> everyday events, in a tension between love<br />
and money, with a basic failure to communicate, In Milton Lumky<br />
Territory stands out among Dick’s early works.<br />
“A kind <strong>of</strong> pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES<br />
“Remarkable…echoes <strong>of</strong> Dick’s contemporaries such as Ralph<br />
Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler, and early<br />
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate.… Dick fans will be in rapture.”<br />
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (BOXED REVIEW) ON VOICES FROM THE STREET<br />
PHILIP K. DICK has had many movies based on his stories, including the<br />
classic, Blade Runner. The <strong>of</strong>ficial website maintained by the Philip K. Dick<br />
Trust is www.philipkdick.com.<br />
MAY 2008<br />
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