The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First UK Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: unclipped dj within mylar; slightly faded boards; binding remains tight; light foxing on the book block; name penned on fep.
In the swirling, lysergic heart of 1960s America, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test chronicles the extraordinary journey of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters as they barrel across the country in a psychedelically painted bus, blurring the boundaries between reality, consciousness, and rebellion. This is not merely a road trip — it is a foundational document of the counterculture revolution, capturing the ecstatic, chaotic, and deeply spiritual quest of a generation determined to rewire the American mind through art, music, and mind-altering experience. Wolfe, a pioneer of New Journalism, employs a breathless, immersive prose style that mimics the very altered states it documents — sentences cascade, perspectives shift, and the reader is swept into the vortex alongside Kesey, Neal Cassady, and the Grateful Dead in a narrative that is as much a literary experiment as it is social history. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test stands as one of the most influential works of American non-fiction ever written, a book that does not merely report on the psychedelic era but recreates it on the page with visceral, kaleidoscopic intensity. For anyone seeking to understand how the 1960s happened — and why they still matter — this is the essential text.
Author: Tom Wolfe
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First UK Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: unclipped dj within mylar; slightly faded boards; binding remains tight; light foxing on the book block; name penned on fep.
In the swirling, lysergic heart of 1960s America, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test chronicles the extraordinary journey of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters as they barrel across the country in a psychedelically painted bus, blurring the boundaries between reality, consciousness, and rebellion. This is not merely a road trip — it is a foundational document of the counterculture revolution, capturing the ecstatic, chaotic, and deeply spiritual quest of a generation determined to rewire the American mind through art, music, and mind-altering experience. Wolfe, a pioneer of New Journalism, employs a breathless, immersive prose style that mimics the very altered states it documents — sentences cascade, perspectives shift, and the reader is swept into the vortex alongside Kesey, Neal Cassady, and the Grateful Dead in a narrative that is as much a literary experiment as it is social history. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test stands as one of the most influential works of American non-fiction ever written, a book that does not merely report on the psychedelic era but recreates it on the page with visceral, kaleidoscopic intensity. For anyone seeking to understand how the 1960s happened — and why they still matter — this is the essential text.