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Cronies, A Burlesque: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead (Hardcover)
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Cronies, A Burlesque: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead (Hardcover)
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A bullet train of a book, fast-paced, hilarious, rich with action.
A harbinger of good things to come in mysterious ways. It all began
at a cocktail party at Wallace Stegner's for the Stanford writing
class of 1958. Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs became cronies, embarking on
a frolicking, rambunctious adventure that lasted over 40 years.
Babbs calls the 70 stories of this book "burlesques" because, after
85 years of living, much of it in the wide friendly center of an
evolving, at times psychedelic culture, memory no longer can, or
even should include an exact retelling, but only a tasty sprinkling
of the truth, mixed with an endless enigma, all topped with the
best of humor and heart. The troupe of characters include the Kens
Kesey and Babbs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac,
Gregory Corso, Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, Pigpen, Bob Weir, Phil
Lesh, Mountain Girl, Sonny Barger, Larry McMurtry, Wavy Gravy,
Hunter S. Thompson, Kirk Douglas, Paul Newman, Jan Kerouac, Bill
Walton, Wendell Berry, a pick-up bed-sized sturgeon, and always the
many free-spirited, creative, friendly men and women who made up
the Merry Band of Pranksters. Come along for the ride on the famous
bus trip to Manhattan. Join the Hells Angels at their partying
best. Drop in for the early Acid Tests. Experience the Berkeley
Vietnam anti-war rally. Relish the stories of Kesey's pot busts and
"suicide." Climb aboard-"Board!"-for six months on the lam in
Mexico. Take the Further tours with the Grateful Dead. Make the
ultimate move to Oregon, where Babbs and Kesey grew a magical
friendship and collaboration until Kesey passed in 2001.
Irreverent, unencumbered by social norms, literary and poetic,
Cronies is a poignant view of the Sixties and beyond from someone
who was there, and remembers it well. Kind of...
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