The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Wolfe
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: New Journalism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: California
- Principal Characters: Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, Neal Cassady, Other Merry Pranksters
- Genres: Nonfiction, New Journalism
- Subjects: 1960’s, Literature, Manners or customs, Social life, Drugs, Youth, Popular culture, Biography
Form and Content
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test begins very nearly where it ends, with novelist Ken Kesey in a San Mateo, California, jail awaiting trial for drug possession. From there, however, it loops back in time to tell the tale of Kesey and his Merry Pranksters from their beginnings in 1963 to their demise less than four years later, with a number of pages devoted to Kesey’s pre-Prankster days at the bohemian Perry Lane community near Stanford University. Like the legendary Robin Hood and his band of merry men, Kesey and his Pranksters possessed a vision of...
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