I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey Inside the Mind of Philip K. Dick by Emmanuel Carrère

Bloomsbury 
2006 
Paperback 
315 Pages 
13 x 20cm 

Condition: Very Good

Carrère's biography explores Philip K. Dick’s life through the lens of his obsessions: paranoia, altered reality, religious experience, and metaphysical doubt. Blending biography with literary criticism, the book shows how Dick’s visionary science fiction emerged directly from his psychological struggles and mystical experiences. It’s both a portrait of a writer and a study of how reality itself became Dick’s central theme.