The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKER In the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on an awesome social experiment like no other. Blazing across America in their day-glo schoolbus, doped up and deep 'in the pudding', the Pranksters' arrival on the scene - anarchic, exuberant and LSD-infused - would turn on an entire counter-culture, and provide Tom Wolfe with the perfect free-wheeling subject for this, his pioneering masterpiece of New Journalism. ' The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book... the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter' New York Times. This 2018 Vintage Paperback is in fair condition. Rubbed, spine cocked, minor foxing.

ISBN: 9781784873707 SKU: 1582858 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1582858
Location: Non Fiction