The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Ba
by Tom Wolfe | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0965079929 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0965079929 Global Overview for this book
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Three books in one- woo hoo!! TBR
From the back cover:
"...The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, hailed as an American classic, is a memorable portrait of hippie culture, as exemplified by Ken Kesey and his mystic brotherhood, the Merry Pranksters, on their psychedelic odyssey across America. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Wolfe's first book, introduced us to the sixties-the extravagant new styles that owed nothing to the "elite" culture of the past are given their place in history in this collection that Newsweek presciently observed will be "a sharp pleasure to reread years from now." In Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, first published in 1970, two hilarious essays deal with political postures and social styles in a stratus-minded world..."
From the back cover:
"...The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, hailed as an American classic, is a memorable portrait of hippie culture, as exemplified by Ken Kesey and his mystic brotherhood, the Merry Pranksters, on their psychedelic odyssey across America. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Wolfe's first book, introduced us to the sixties-the extravagant new styles that owed nothing to the "elite" culture of the past are given their place in history in this collection that Newsweek presciently observed will be "a sharp pleasure to reread years from now." In Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, first published in 1970, two hilarious essays deal with political postures and social styles in a stratus-minded world..."