The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

Description

"An American classic" ("Newsweek") that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" ("The New York Times Book Review") and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the 1960s.

Reviews

Tom Wolfe is a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolfe! Terry Southern 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 . . . Vibrating dazzle! The New York Times Some consider Mailer our greatest journalist; my candidate is Wolfe. Studs Terkel, Book Week A Day-Glo book, illuminating, merry, surreal! The Washington Post Electrifying. San Francisco Chronicle An amazing book . . . A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the nonfiction novel. The Village Voice Among journalists, Wolfe is a genuine poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm. Newsweek"

Author description

Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as "The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff," and "I Am Charlotte Simmons." He lives in New York City.