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Outside Looking In

Outside Looking In

The Seriously Funny Life and Work of George Carlin

by T. C. Boyle
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/04/2020

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It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD.

Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to support their son, they are not the sort of people one would expect to be seduced by the nascent drug culture. But their nights on LSD prove so extraordinary – so revelatory, so earth-shattering, so downright seductive – that Fitzhugh and Joanie are soon captive to the whims of the charismatic and subversive Dr Tim.

Follow Fitzhugh and Joanie on their quest for transcendence, as sultry Mexican nights at Hotel Catalina give way to a ramshackle mansion in upstate New York, where thirty devotees – students, wives and children – play out the final act of a terrible, beautiful experiment.

Join us, won't you? It's going to be one hell of a trip.

ISBN:
9781526604651
9781526604651
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-04-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x29mm
Weight:
0.28kg

"Boyle offers a cautionary account of those heady days as the Loney family suffers the personal costs of free love and freak-outs"
Jeffrey Burke, Mail on Sunday 

"A pitch-dark sex comedy"
Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail

"The undisputed master...Boyle is brilliant at charting the currents of euphoria and idealism around Leary, the phantasmagorical effects of LSD, and Fitz's eventual slide into self-destruction. Boyle blurs the boundaries between the fact and fiction, adding a novelistic shimmer and richness to what the histories already tell us...A roller-coaster morality tale of the road of excess leading to the palace of wisdom"
Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph

"Boyle renders the hypnotic, quasi-academic mood of the commune skilfully, capturing the participants' initial belief that this was a serious spiritual quest. This moment in the mid-Sixties before the bonkers hippy movement of the west coast took over the counter-culture from the intellectuals from the east, is fascinating … As the story of one man's descent into madness, and the folly of communal living and doing drugs for breakfast it's a thrilling read"
The Times

"A virtuoso performance by Boyle – joyous, mad-scientist slapstick, frightening, profound and even erotic"
Herald

T. C. Boyle

T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II.

His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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