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Author: Tom Wolfe ,
Jarvis Cocker
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.302kg
ISBN: 9781784873707
ISBN 10: 1784873705
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 31 May 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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 * New York Times * Electrifying * San Francisco Chronicle * An amazing book... A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the nonfiction novel * The Village Voice * Every word seems placed with a care and a skill of contrivance... A major journalistic contribution to the future analysis of our own and America's strange period of this century * Guardian * A Day-Glo book, illuminating, merry, surreal! * Washington Post *
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 * New York Times * A life-changer, a rabble-rouser, a mind-blower, a gathering of the tribes, a call to arms, a manifesto for a new society, a car repair manual, a fly-on-the-paisley-patterned-wall account of a cultural revolution - a masterpiece! -- Jarvis Cocker Electrifying * San Francisco Chronicle * An amazing book... A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the nonfiction novel * The Village Voice * Every word seems placed with a care and a skill of contrivance... A major journalistic contribution to the future analysis of our own and America's strange period of this century * Guardian *
Author Information
Tom Wolfe (Author) Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Jarvis Cocker (Introducer) Jarvis Cocker is a musician & broadcaster from the north of England. He formed the band Pulp in 1978 whilst at secondary school. They went on to become one of the most successful UK groups of the 1990s. Between 2009 & 2017 he presented the BBC 6Music programme ""Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service"" as well as the ongoing, award-winning BBC Radio 4 documentary series ""Wireless Nights"". He has honorary doctorates from both Sheffield Hallam University & Central Saint Martin's School of Art (which he attended 1988-91). His lyric collection ""Mother, Brother, Lover"" was published by Faber in 2011. ""Good Pop, Bad Pop "" is his first work of long-form prose. He divides his time between Paris, London & the Peak District. His star-sign is Virgo.
