{"product_id":"9781480594258","title":"In Milton Lumky Territory","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Novels of Philip K. Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim Stanley Robinson states that “\u003ci\u003eIn Milton Lumky Territory\u003c\/i\u003e…is probably the best of Dick’s realist novels aside from \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Crap Artist\u003c\/i\u003e,” and calls it a “bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism.” Dick, on the other hand, says in his foreword, “This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilton Lumky territory is both an area of the western United States and a psychic terrain: the world and worldview of the traveling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco, to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under the spell of an attractive older woman (who used to be his school teacher) and Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink into the whirlpool of Bruce’s immature personal obsessions and misperceptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compassionate and ironic portrayal of three characters enmeshed in a sticky web of everyday events, in a tension between love and money, with a basic failure to communicate, \u003ci\u003eIn Milton Lumky Territory\u003c\/i\u003e stands out among Dick’s early works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051713085680,"sku":"9781480594258","price":49.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480594258_p0.jpg?v=1763620371","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480594258","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}