Confessions of a Crap Artist

Confessions of a Crap Artist
	Cover of first edition (paperback)
Author	Philip K. Dick
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Entwhistle Books
Publication date	1975
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	171 pp
ISBN	0-9601428-2-7 (1978 Entwhistle paperback reissue)
OCLC	4111677
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ4.D547 Co 1978 PS3554.I3

Confessions of a Crap Artist is a 1975 novel by Philip K. Dick, originally written in 1959. Dick wrote about a dozen non-science fiction novels in the period from 1948 to 1960; this is the only one published during his lifetime.

The novel chronicles a bitter and complex marital conflict in the rural Bay Area of 1950s Northern California. Each chapter is written in alternating perspective switching between first person perspective from the main characters as well as chapters written from a third person perspective. The novel contains only small amounts of the complex mystical and science fiction concepts that define much of Dick's work. Rolling Stone called it a "funny, horribly accurate portrait of a life in California in the Fifties".^[1]

^ Williams, Paul (November 6, 1975). "The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" (PDF). Rolling Stone. No. 199. p. 48.

[1] Williams, Paul (November 6, 1975). "The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" (PDF). Rolling Stone. No. 199. p. 48.

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