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    <body><![CDATA[Mary Ann Reynolds is just emerging from her chrysalis of childhood to face the reality of 1950s' California. Her home is Pacific Park, a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere. Her new acquaintances, Joseph Schilling who owns the new record store, Paul Nitz who plays piano at the Lazy Wren Club, black...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15820818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read somewhere that Philip K. Dick, for all his science fiction success, had difficulty getting his work outside the genre published, so a lot of his work set in contemporary times was released after his death. If such a scenario is the case with Mary and the Giant, it would go a long way toward e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7393652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phil Dick's best mainstream novel about the 1950s. It hits all the right chords about the burgeoning undercurrents of that time (not that I know anything about those burgeoning undercurrents, but it sounds good to me). Also, great anomie!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Biggest disappointment was that it had a Sci/fi sticker on the outside, so I was expecting a different story...]]></body>
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