- Softcover
- New
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United KingdomPBShop.store UK
AbeBooks seller since June 11, 1999
Condition: New
US$ 25.84
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New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Seller Inventory # L2-9798218339913
- Title
- The Substitute Asshole
- Author
- Quarnstrom, Dean
- Publisher
- Evan Quarnstrom
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798218339913
- Item weight
- 417 grams
Child of the ‘60s, branded felon of the ‘80s
When Owsley Stanley, the famed 1960s psychedelics pioneer and entrepreneur known as the ‘Acid King,’ was looking for a right-hand man to help run one of the world’s first and largest private LSD enterprises, he decided that Dean Quarnstrom was the man for the job. Dean had something that Owsley needed. He could ride the fine line between blending into the ‘straight’ world to procure chemicals and equipment for the production of LSD, while also well-versed and embedded in the hip, drug-fueled counterculture sprouting in 1960s San Francisco. Dean’s connection with Owsley was just the latest in a string of bizarre events that pulled him deeper into the underworld of the blooming cultural revolution taking place in the Bay Area.
Ever since Dean ran away from home to join the circus as a child, he always knew that he was not destined for a traditional, conformist life. As a young adult, he set out to forge his own trail, a journey that led to surviving a life-changing, fatal car accident, falling in with the first generation of LSD experimenters and dealers, getting entangled in the world of drug smuggling, landing in federal prison, and reinventing himself as a father of three.
In his whimsical travels he crossed paths with many historical figures, including Owsley Stanley, the former Harvard professor turned spiritual Guru, Richard Alpert aka ‘Ram Dass,’ and the novelist and cultural icon, Ken Kesey, with his misfit band of Merry Pranksters.
In The Substitute Asshole, the late Quarnstrom recounts the tales of his life through the lens of his crippling diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, which he conjectured allowed him to view his past life with a newfound sense of lucidity. In an attempt to reveal the true extent of his life to his three adult children, he narrates his compelling stories that include cutting his teeth as a kid on the streets of 1950s Chicago, dropping acid with the Grateful Dead, meeting with drug lords in Sinaloa, Mexico, and battling depression and loneliness from the confines of a bone-dry Mojave Desert prison."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
PBShop.store UK
Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since June 11, 1999
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 10 to 20 business days | 10 to 20 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | US$ 5.62 | US$ 5.62 |
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**Please note our transit times are from the date of dispatch.** We first started out as “The Paperback Exchange,” a chain of physical bookstores where we would part exchange your beloved books for new stories to transport you to faraway places. However, as shopping started to evolve to online shops and marketplaces, we bid our stores goodbye to become “PBShop.” This transition has only allowed us to blossom as we now ship thousands of titles to book lovers across the globe. We pride ourselves in being a community of local book lovers which allows our passion and devotion to shine in everything we do. In 2020 we not only celebrated our 20th birthday but our 1st birthday as being completely employee owned after becoming an E.O.T in September 2019. We are proud to be different and embrace standing apart on a book mountain by working from a virtual inventory which allows us to provide thousands of books that may be difficult to get for your bookshelf or your studies. Working with a number of different suppliers allows us to explore other avenues such as puzzles, sheet music and even stationery so we really do have something for everyone. Life is about being versatile in all realms of existence. If this is your first purchase with us, or you are a returning customer, we would like to welcome you to the PBShop family, for there is no friend as loyal as a book. We are a company who put our customers at the centre of everything we do as we understand the importance of reading because once you learn to read, you will forever be free. There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours that we are yet to explore, which is why we will forever inspire curious minds.…
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