In Milton Lumky Territory

Bruce Stevens is a successful young buyer for the CBB discount house in Reno and he cruises around the Western States in his '55 Mercury checking out likely deals. But when he meets Susan Faine, the part-owner of an ailing typewriter store in Boise, Idaho, a more attractive proposition comes his way. Susan is ten years older than Bruce and recently divorced. They've also met before, when she was his teacher in fifth grade. But she wants to manage the store and he's keen to try... This is a haunting novel of American small-town life in the 1950s, one of the fine mainstream works from Philip K. Dick. Originally written in 1958, but rejected by prospective publishers, this book was eventually published posthumously in 1985.