Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - First Printing

Dick, Philip K.

ISBN 10: 0575018801 / ISBN 13: 9780575018808

Published by Gollancz, London, 1974

About this Item

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine, no inscriptions, some age toning to top edge of pages. Book has been rebound - probably for a library (see picture) but has no library markings. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, not price clipped (£2.20) just two small nicks at top of spine - see pictures. 1st UK Edition, First Printing. A nice copy of the scarce Gollancz edition of one of Dick's seminal works set in a dystopian future with a police state.

Seller Inventory # 003678

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - First Printing
• Publisher: Gollancz, London
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575018801
• ISBN 13: 9780575018808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments 40 years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright & beautiful people. He's also the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich & famous again? Was he, in fact, ever rich & famous?

From the Inside Flap

>On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.

Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.