Unfortunately, the superb day-glo pink of this cover doesn't come out with my scanner. You'll just have to use your freaky imagination!

The above book was contributed by the marvellous Mark Manson.

"TOM WOLFE
HAS PUBLISHED
TWO BOOKS
THE SAME DAY
TWO BOOKS!!!!!!!!
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWACK!
THE SAME DAY!!!!!
TOO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O
FREAKING MUCH!"
- THE NEW YORK TIMES

THE PUMP HOUSE GANG
AND
THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST

A Bantam Book / published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Farrar edition published August 1968
Literary Guild edition published August 1968
Serialized in EYE Magazine September 1968
Serialized in Bell-McClure Syndicate newspapers beginning September 1968
Bantam edition / October 1969
This edition May 1977
© 1968 Tom Wolfe
© 1966 by the World Journal Tribune Corporation, © 1964, 1965, 1966 by the New York Herald Tribune, Inc.

BEAT, all that it involves... the sound behind our cornflakes... the twitch of T.V.'s most with-it programme... the whole forcing of every living human being to get younger and younger, no matter how tired they may become in the process, is here examined as never before - by a writer who has been intimately involved.

THIS BOOK WILL SHOCK, but it should be read in order that the whole frenetic, itching scene can be understood in relation to the bleak, lonely landscape in which it is in reality set.