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Author Dodgson, Rick, author.

Title It's all a kind of magic : the young Ken Kesey / Rick Dodgson.

Publication Info. Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 226 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
Summary "The first biography of Kesey, [revealing] a youthful life of brilliance and eccentricity that encompassed wrestling, writing, farming, magic and ventriloquism, CIA-funded experiments with hallucinatory drugs, and a notable cast of characters that would come to include Wallace Stegner, Larry McMurtry, Tom Wolfe, Neal Cassady, Timothy Leary, the Grateful Dead, and Hunter S. Thompson"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Sparks fly upward -- From Hollywood to the written word -- Sin Hollow -- A royal road to insight -- Better living through chemistry -- Sometimes a Great Notion -- A new Prometheus.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Kesey, Ken.
Kesey, Ken.
Kesey, Ken.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Dodgson, Rick. It's all a kind of magic 9780299295103 (DLC) 2013010411 (OCoLC)830837601
ISBN 9780299295134 (electronic book)
0299295133 (electronic book)
9780299295103 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0299295109 (cloth ; alkaline paper)