Voices from the Street

Voices from the Street is Philip K. Dick's earliest surviving novel manuscript and the last of his unpublished novels to appear in print. Written around 1952 and set in a small-appliance shop in the East Bay, it follows Stuart Hadley, a young television salesman caught between a strained marriage, a restless ambition he cannot define, and an attraction to a charismatic Black preacher whose ministry draws him into an obsessive, self-destructive spiral. The novel is realistic fiction with no science fiction elements. Its California milieu, its attention to the textures of working-class commercial life, and its portrait of a man coming undone from within are closer to the mainstream novels Dick was writing alongside his science fiction throughout the early 1950s than to anything in his genre work. Published posthumously by Tor in 2007.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, light blue cloth with copper lettering on the spine. New York: Tor Books, 2007. Wintz & Hyde MS9.1. ISBN: 0765316927. #10507.
Fine in fine dust jacket.