A Scanner Darkly: A Graphic Novel
by Dick, Philip K
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D, which he also takes in massive quantities. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. What Fred doesn't know is that Substance D gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, and that he is, in fact, in frantic pursuit of himself.
A Scanner Darkly is caustically funny and razor sharp in its depiction of drug-induced paranoia and madness; it's an industrial-strength stress test of identity as unnerving as it is riveting. The novel is captured in this brilliant graphic vision, composed entirely of stills from the movie.
Writer/Director Richard Linklater shot a live-action film, starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder, and then animated over the underlying images. The result is an eerily lifelike, richly detailed animation that translates beautifully to the page.
Synopsis
A Scanner Darkly is a BSFA Award winning 1977 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the then-future of June 1994. It includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60670
- Title
- A Scanner Darkly: A Graphic Novel
- Author
- Dick, Philip K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- graphic novel ; film ; based on novel ;
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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