Humpty Dumpty in Oakland

Philip K. Dick First published 1988

About this book

In 1950s San Francisco, elderly garage owner Jim Ferguson prepares to retire and sell his business, but when he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, Al Miller, one of Jim's mechanics who thinks that Harman is a crook, sets out to protect his mentor.

Subjects

  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, psychological
  • oakland (calif.), fiction
  • san francisco (calif.), fiction
  • self-deception