Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change (Signed First Edition)

Tao Lin

ISBN 10: 1101974516 / ISBN 13: 9781101974513

Published by Vintage Books (New York), 2018

About this Item

First edition, first printing (with full number sequence including the 1). Softbound, a trade paperback original. Very Fine. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Shipped in well padded box. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper--the author's name only, with no other marks or writing; he has signed his name in a very distinctive manner so that it looks like a drawing of a SNAIL. Purchased new and opened only for author signature. You cannot find a better copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Vintage Books (New York)
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101974516
• ISBN 13: 9781101974513
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original.

While isolating himself to work on his novel Taipei, Tao Lin discovered the prolific work of Terence McKenna--the leading advocate of psychotropic drugs since Timothy Leary. Tao became obsessed with McKenna, whose worldview (and particular theory of drug use) seemed to present an alternate way of being. In Trip, Tao's first ever book-length work of nonfiction, he explores parallels between McKenna's life and his own in a far-reaching search for answers to looming questions: Why do we make art? What is language for? And are there essential, universal truths out there, beyond our limited range of perception?

Trip takes readers on a trip through psychedelic culture, from D.A.R.E. to Aldous Huxley, from NYU's Bobst Library to a plant-drawing class in Santa Rosa, California. Drawing on first-person exploratory journalism as well as in-depth research, Tao details the experience of taking psilocybin, DMT, and cannabis, studies their chemical composure and legality, and ends his story with a pilgrimage out West, where he communes with McKenna's ex-wife and fellow "ethnobotanist," Kathleen Harrison.

About the Author

Tao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei and Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel, the story collection Bed, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House.