Electric Kool-aid Acid Test
by Wolfe, Tom
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. Book shows considerable wear with stained and mottled covers, bumped and worn corners, sun faded spine, super just barely showing at pre-title page, occasional stain to pages, otherwise text/interior is clean and free of marking. Contents include: Black shiny FBI shoes, Rusky-dusky neon dust, The bus, Unauthorized acid, The crypt trip, The unpoken thing, The bust, The Hell's Angels,Cosmo's Tasmanian deviltry, The Mexican bust, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a drug saturated group of hippies, trouble with the law. 416 pages. pushing, ballooning heart of the matter , Vibrating dazzle; ""[a]mong journalists, Wolfe is a genuine poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm"" -- (Newsweek).
Synopsis
Are you on the bus? Tom Wolfe took a tour with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they departed California and made their way across the country in a day-glo painted bus full of LSD and enthusiasm in the summer of 1964.
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- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153107
- Title
- Electric Kool-aid Acid Test
- Author
- Wolfe, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Black shiny FBI shoes, Rusky-dusky neon dust, The bus, Unauthorized acid, The crypt trip, The unpoken thing, The bust, The Hell's Angels,Cosmo's Tasmanian deviltry, The Mexican bust, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a drug saturated group of hippies,
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- Fiction;
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