Gather Yourself Together

Gather Yourselves Together was written in 1952 and is Philip K. Dick's earliest surviving novel manuscript. It remained unpublished during his lifetime and appeared posthumously in 1994. The novel is realistic fiction with no science fiction elements. Set in China during the Communist takeover, it follows three American employees of a company compound who are left behind as the last of the Western staff withdraws. Over several days, the three, two men and a young woman, fall into an extended triangle of memory, attraction, and unresolved feeling. The novel reads as a character study of youth and uncertainty, and its China setting gives the political backdrop a weight that never quite becomes the story's focus. Like Voices from the Street, it belongs to the body of mainstream fiction Dick was writing alongside his science fiction throughout the early 1950s. First published by WCS Books in 1994.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, bound black cloth with red lettering on spine. Herndon, VA: WCS Books, 1994. Wintz & Hyde MS2. ISBN: 1878914057. #10132.
Fine in fine dust jacket.