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Humpty Dumpty in Oakland

by Philip K. Dick · May 5, 1988

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In 1950s San Francisco, elderly garage owner Jim Ferguson prepares to retire and sell his business, but when he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, Al Miller, one of Jim's mechanics who thinks that Harman is a crook, sets out to protect his mentor.

Self-deceptionFictionOakland (calif.), fictionFiction, generalSan francisco (calif.), fictionFiction, psychological