Description: "Strange, fascinating man, and this a strange, fascinating book." -- The San Diego Union Tribune "Emmanuel Carrre's I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick is remarkable--a depth charge, a CAT scan, and an exorcism. Carrre, whose own eerie novels include The Adversary , proves that it's still possible for the French to write like Voltaire rather than Derrida. Informed, affectionate, sardonic, he is also crystal clear." -- John Leonard, Harper's "Consistently fascinating and brilliantly written . . . Carrre combines fact and fiction to form a new sort of genre, blending literary criticism and cultural history with a novelist's earnest speculation." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "The story of a remarkable life marked by great burst of creativity and equally frequent bouts of mental turmoil . . . Carrre wisely eschews the 'and then he wrote' approach to literary biography . . . He neither overstates Dick's gifts nor belittles his more outlandish hypotheses about the underlying meaning of reality . . . Captures . . . [Dick'sbelittles his more outlandish hypotheses about the underlying meaning of reality . . . Captures . . . [Dick'sbelittles his more outlandish hypotheses about the underlying meaning of reality . . . Captures . . . [Dick'sbelittles his more outlandish hypotheses about the underlying meaning of reality . . . Captures . . . [Dick's] sense of humor , his intellectual curiosity, his very human vulnerability . . . Compelling." -- Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle "Startling . . . Carrre gets so far inside the head of the deeply troubled author . . . the resulting text is remarkably vivid, intimate, often haunting." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "What Dick thinks and feels as a man and writer is richly developed in this riveting biography. Mr. Carrre's book is mesmerizing. Seldom have I read a biographer who drew me so deeply into his subject's world." -- Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun "Every whorl of Dick's mind, every delusion, every leap through the looking glass, is chronicled. The effect is powerful." -- James Parker, The Boston Globe "[A] painful and unconventional biography [that] portrays Dick as a Cold War Don Quixote, flailing at the totalitarianism he suspected was taking over 1950s-60s America. Aimed at hardcore Dick fans, it's a powerful treatment of a difficult subject." -- Publishers Weekly

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