9780062882998-0062882996-Outside Looking In: A Novel

Outside Looking In: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780062882998
ISBN-10: 0062882996
Edition: Reprint
Author: Tc Boyle
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Ecco
Format: Paperback 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780062882998
ISBN-10: 0062882996
Edition: Reprint
Author: Tc Boyle
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Ecco
Format: Paperback 400 pages

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Outside Looking In: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780062882998 and ISBN-10: 0062882996), written by authors Tc Boyle, was published by Ecco in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Outside Looking In: A Novel (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.14.

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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’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.

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