{"product_id":"9780575133082-the-broken-bubble","title":"The Broken Bubble","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour people's lives intertwine and collide in this early novel from one of the SF greats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour people's lives intertwine and collide in this early novel from one of the SF greats\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSan Francisco in the 1950s, a turning point in American culture: the rise of rock and roll and the teenage lifestyle. Jim Briskin is a disc jockey on radio KOIF. He's still in love with his ex-wife, Pat - even though she's about to marry someone else at the station - and she's vacillating between them. But when he takes her to visit the desperate household of two of his teenage fans, she seduces the boy into abandoning his pregnant wife - who then claims Jim as her protector and support.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd all around them the cultural upheaval of postwar American society is manifest, by teenage outcasts who have a remote-controlled Nazi automobile they use to bump into the rich kids' cars; by Thisbe Holt, the dancer who performs for conventioneers by stuffing herself inside a clear plastic bubble; by blaring used-car ads and the conflict between generations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDick gives us a vision of redemption tempered with layered ironies and a lot of real humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31890158059617,"sku":"9780575133082","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29820655.jpg?v=1725782616","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780575133082-the-broken-bubble","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}