Description
A first edition, first printing ‘The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’ published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1969. A near fine book without inscriptions in a like clipped wrapper with a touch of creasing to the spine tips.
The follow-up to ‘The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby’ (1965), Wolfe’s exuberant firsthand account of the novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters as they travelled across America in a brightly painted bus is a classic of late twentieth-century American prose. “Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’ is a literary “gateway drug” a hallucination of a book that introduced me to a whole new way of looking at the world” (Jarvis Cocker).
