UID:
kobvindex_VBRD-i97800628830010400
Umfang:
400 S.
ISBN:
9780062883001
Inhalt:
A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD. In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug+óEuros possibilities such that their +óEuro+ôresearch" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living. With his trademark humor and pathos, Boyle moves us through the LoneysâEuro initiation at one of LearyâEuros parties to his notorious summer seminars in Zihuatanejo until the LoneysâEuro eventual expulsion from Harvard and their introduction to a communal arrangement of thirty devoteesâEuro"students, wives, and childrenâEuro"living together in a sixty-four room mansion and devoting themselves to all kinds of experimentation and questioning. Is LSD a belief system? Does it allow you to see God? Can the LoneysâEuro marriageâEuro"or any marriage, for that matterâEuro"survive the chaotic and sometimes orgiastic use of psychedelic drugs? Wry, witty, and wise, Outside Looking In is an ideal subject for this American master, and highlights BoyleâEuros acrobatic prose, detailed plots, and big ideas. ItâEuros an utterly engaging and occasionally trippy look at the nature of reality, identity, and consciousness, as well as our seemingly infinite capacities for creativity, re-invention, and self-discovery
Anmerkung:
; Englisch
Sprache:
Deutsch
