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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test / Tom Wolfe.

Wolfe, Tom. (Author).

Summary:

Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counterculture canon of American literature.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780312427597
  • ISBN: 031242759X
  • Physical Description: 416 pages ; 21 cm

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Black shiny FBI shoes -- Bladder totem -- Electric suit -- What do think of my Buddha? -- Rusky-dusky neon dust -- Bus -- Unauthorized acid -- Tootling the multitudes -- Crypt trip -- Dream wars -- Unspoken thing -- Bust -- Hell's Angels -- Miracle in seven days -- Cloud -- The frozen jug band -- Departures -- Cosmo's Tasmanian deviltry -- Trips festival -- The electric Kool-Aid acid test -- Fugitive -- Diablo! -- Red tide -- Mexican bust -- Secret agent number one -- The cops and robbers game -- The graduation -- Epilogue.
Subject:
Kesey, Ken > Trave.
Wolfe, Tom > Travel > United States.
Drug addiction > United States.
Drug abuse > United States.
Hippies > United States.
LSD (Drug) > United States.
Social history > 1960-1970.

Available copies

  • 5 of 5 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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