Horselover Fat's nervous breakdown began the day he got the phonecall from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals.
About the Book
Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. Valis is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime."The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation--this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years."--Ursula K. Le Guin, New RepublicFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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Classifications
| Library of Congress | PS3554.I3 V35 1991 |
| Dewey | 813/.54 |
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12 editions First published in 1981
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History Created December 9, 2009 · 5 revisions
| October 31, 2010 | Edited by 65.24.167.220 | Added new cover |
| June 22, 2010 | Edited by ImportBot | add details from OverDrive |
| April 28, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the work. |
| February 3, 2010 | Edited by WorkBot | add more information to works |
| December 9, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |