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The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
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Description for The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258.
I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I couldn't hear the music...people were dancing...someone came up to me and I shut my eyes and with a machine he projected images on the back of my eye-lids...I sought out a person I trusted and he laughed and told me that the Kool-Aid had been spiked and that I was beginning my first LSD experience...
I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I couldn't hear the music...people were dancing...someone came up to me and I shut my eyes and with a machine he projected images on the back of my eye-lids...I sought out a person I trusted and he laughed and told me that the Kool-Aid had been spiked and that I was beginning my first LSD experience...
Product Details
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552993661
SKU
V9780552993661
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (1931-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Reviews for The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test
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
A life-changer, a rabble-rouser, a mind-blower, a gathering of the tribes, a call to arms, a manifesto for a new society, a car repair manual, a fly-on-the-paisley-patterned-wall account of a cultural revolution – a masterpiece!
Jarvis Cocker Electrifying
San Francisco Chronicle
An amazing book... A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the nonfiction novel
The Village Voice
Every word seems placed with a care and a skill of contrivance... A major journalistic contribution to the future analysis of our own and America's strange period of this century
Guardian
You only had to look at him… or read such books as The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff to know that Tom Wolfe was like no other
John Pye
The Scotsman
Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence
Mick Brown
Daily Telegraph
Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction… a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory
Andy Martin
Independent
[Tom Wolfe’s] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists
Guardian
[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don’t like fun
Freddy Gray
The Catholic Herald
New York Times
A life-changer, a rabble-rouser, a mind-blower, a gathering of the tribes, a call to arms, a manifesto for a new society, a car repair manual, a fly-on-the-paisley-patterned-wall account of a cultural revolution – a masterpiece!
Jarvis Cocker Electrifying
San Francisco Chronicle
An amazing book... A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the nonfiction novel
The Village Voice
Every word seems placed with a care and a skill of contrivance... A major journalistic contribution to the future analysis of our own and America's strange period of this century
Guardian
You only had to look at him… or read such books as The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff to know that Tom Wolfe was like no other
John Pye
The Scotsman
Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence
Mick Brown
Daily Telegraph
Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction… a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory
Andy Martin
Independent
[Tom Wolfe’s] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists
Guardian
[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don’t like fun
Freddy Gray
The Catholic Herald