num_pages: 256
description: Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hollow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack's murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack's, but a great deal uglier.
language: English
title: Confessions of a Crap Artist
titlecomplete: Confessions of a Crap Artist
characters: John Isidore, Charley Hume, Fay Hume
genres: 20th Century, American, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4868
places: Point Reyes Station, California
publisher: Vintage