The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Limited Edition)

Tom Wolfe

ISBN 10: 3836552108 / ISBN 13: 9783836552103

Published by Taschen, 1968

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Collector?s Edition (No. 201 bis 1,968) nummerierten Exemplaren, jeweils signiert von Tom Wolfe, hier Nummer 1594. Hardcover im Schuber, im traditionellen Hochdruckverfahren auf zwei verschiedenen Papiersorten gedruckt, mit eingeklebten Manuskriptseiten, 24 x 34 cm, 356 Seiten. Im Jahre 1964 brachen der berühmte Schriftsteller Ken Kesey und seine Kommune zu einer Transkontinentalen Bustour durch Amerika auf, die von San Francisco nach New York führen und den Geist der psychedelischen Revolution im ganzen Land verbreiten sollte. On the road mit dabei: ein ganzer Kanister voll mit reinem LSD. Keseys Promo-Trip für bewusstseinserweiternde Drogen in Gesellschaft seiner Merry Pranksters bildet das Kernstück von The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test von Tom Wolfe, dem Wunderkind der New-Journalism-Bewegung. Der Text, der ebenso als Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur wie der Hippiebewegung gilt, bietet eine einzigartige Innenschau der Counterculture im Amerika der Sechzigerjahre und dokumentiert die medialen Schockwellen, die diese lysergsäuregeschwängerte Rebellion auslöste. Diese von Tom Wolfe signierte Collector?s Edition enthält eine gekürzte Fassung des Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in traditionellem Hochdruck neben Faksimile-Nachdrucken von Wolfes Manuskriptseiten sowie Ken Keseys Gefängnistagebüchern, Flugblättern und Untergrundzeitschriften der damaligen Zeit. Seller Inventory # 000217

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Limited ...

Publisher: Taschen

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Neu

Signed: Signatur des Verfassers

Edition: 1. Auflage

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Synopsis:

First Edition, 1968, first printing, hardcover book in dust jacket, with both book covers and jacket soiled and the jacket quite torn and worn at the spine ends and outer corners,1968, from FSG. Author Tom Wolfe's personal experiences interacting/interviewing people involved with the late 1960's counterculture revolution.

Review:

They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of "tootling the multitudes"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.

Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo