# The Broken Bubble

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- Book: [The Broken Bubble](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick/the-broken-bubble) ([The Broken Bubble.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick/the-broken-bubble.md))
- Authors: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7513-308-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-06-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Four people's lives intertwine and collide in this early novel from one of the SF greats San Francisco in the 1950s, a turning point in American culture: the rise of rock and roll and the teenage lifestyle. Jim Briskin is a disc jockey on radio KOIF. He's still in love with his ex-wife, Pat - even though she's about to marry someone else at the station - and she's vacillating between them. But when he takes her to visit the desperate household of two of his teenage fans, she seduces the boy into abandoning his pregnant wife - who then claims Jim as her protector and support. And all around them the cultural upheaval of postwar American society is manifest, by teenage outcasts who have a remote-controlled Nazi automobile they use to bump into the rich kids' cars; by Thisbe Holt, the dancer who performs for conventioneers by stuffing herself inside a clear plastic bubble; by blaring used-car ads and the conflict between generations. Dick gives us a vision of redemption tempered with layered ironies and a lot of real humour.