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Outside Looking In : A Novel by T. C. Boyle (2019, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100062882988
ISBN-139780062882981
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038242998
Product Key Features
Book TitleOutside Looking in : a Novel
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicPsychological, Literary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorT.C. Boyle
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-277168
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsSpellbinding...Boyle's latest work of countercultural, biographical fiction will lure his devotees and the newly curious alike., "Spellbinding...Boyle's latest work of countercultural, biographical fiction will lure his devotees and the newly curious alike." -- Booklist "He writes with a youthful and sustained energy that parallels the zeal of his dreamers, and that ultimately attenuates their failures. There are few writers who seem more American." -- New York Times Book Review "This is a superbly paced novel that manages to feel simultaneously suspenseful and inevitable." -- Washington Post "Few novelists have benefited more from the freedom unleashed by the psychedelic revolution than the prolific Boyle, . . . but here he shows a buttoned-down control over his material, a deadpan innocence in the face of seismic changes to come. . . . Boyle evokes a cultural flashpoint with implications that transcend acid flashbacks." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Boyle takes us deep inside the lives of [Timothy] Leary and his convention-bashing acolytes, offering a brisk read that provides much food for thought. Boyle fans will enjoy." -- Library Journal (starred review)
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisA 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's possibilities such that their "research" 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 Loneys' initiation at one of Leary's parties to his notorious summer seminars in Zihuatanejo until the Loneys' eventual expulsion from Harvard and their introduction to a communal arrangement of thirty devotees--students, wives, and children--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 Loneys' marriage--or any marriage, for that matter--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 Boyle's acrobatic prose, detailed plots, and big ideas. It's 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3552.O932O98 2019
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