The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Informationen zum Autor 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 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. Klappentext As part of a reissue of a number of Tom Wolfe titles, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is available here from "Vintage Classics" to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, with a new introduction from Jarvis Cocker. New Journalism pioneer Tom Wolfe heads out with the author Ken Kesey and his 'Merry Band of Pranksters' across sixties America on an exuberant, drug-fuelled bus ride. Zusammenfassung Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on an awesome social experiment like no other.

Préface
Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary

Auteur
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 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.

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As part of a reissue of a number of Tom Wolfe titles, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is available here from "Vintage Classics" to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, with a new introduction from Jarvis Cocker. New Journalism pioneer Tom Wolfe heads out with the author Ken Kesey and his 'Merry Band of Pranksters' across sixties America on an exuberant, drug-fuelled bus ride.

Résumé
Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on an awesome social experiment like no other.