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Using techniques from the genre of hysterical realism and pioneering new journalism, the novel tells the story of ken kesey and his band of merry pranksters. Printed in a limited run of 1,968 copies, the new edition features neverbeforeseen facsimile reproductions. Kesey leaves his home in oregon to do postgraduate work on a creative writing fellowship at stanford university. Free download or read online the electric koolaid acid test pdf epub book. The electric koolaid acid test by tom wolfe the 37th. The electric koolaid acid test by tom wolfe 9780312427597. The electric koolaid acid test 1968 became a classic of 1960s counterculture. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, wolfes ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic. His 1968 book, the electric koolaid acid test, described the hippie counterculture through.
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Kesey was the chief, prehaight, prehippy, the floating plastic fantastic west coast apostle of the impossible who so ordained that lsd was the key and put together a band of merry pranksters whose. Browse tom wolfes bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. The electric koolaid acid test audiobook on cd, 2005. Pdf the electric koolaid acid test book by tom wolfe. Major themes addressed in the book, the electric koolaid acid test, include new journalism, religion. The electric kool aid acid test news the harvard crimson. The electric koolaid acid test tom wolfe 1972 bantam pb. I n 1964, when ken kesey, author and lsd evangelist, and a. Wolfe is trying to do some kind of experimental fiction where he portrays the merry pranksters in the style of an lsd trip. This interview with tom wolfe was first published in november 2016. The electric koolaid acid test tom wolfe macmillan. One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, tom wolfes the electric koolaid test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with ken kesey and the merry pranksters as they launched out on the transcontinental bus tour from the west coast to new york, all the while introducing acid then legal to hundreds of likeminded. Tom wolfe one of the 20th centurys foremost voices in cultural criticism went from local. Tom wolfe writes about ken kesey, a promising young writer, during keseys experimentations with lsd from about 1961 to 1964.
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