Condtion: -Normal paperback book wear -No missing pages -No stains or tears About the author: Ken Kesey: legendary writer, counterculture folk hero-chieftrickster of the sixties' tuned-in, turned-on generation. NowKesey comes to terms with his own legend, as he reveals hisfascinating passage from the psychedelic sixties to the contradictory eighties. Assuming the guise of Devlin Deboree (pronounced debris)Kesey begins with his release from prison and his return to anunusual domestic life; recounts various foreign excursions (toEgypt to visit the Sphinx, and to China to cover the BeijingMarathon); relates lively stories of farm and family and, in thevoice of his grandmother, a tall tale and a narrative prayer. Mostpoignantly, Kesey looks at the hard lessons to be found in the deaths of Neal Cassady and John Lennon.As always, Kesey challenges public and private demons withsure, subtle strokes-and with the brave and deceptiveembrace of the wrestler.

ISBN: 9780140085303