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