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Outside Looking In
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Product details
| Published | 09 Apr 2019 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 400 |
| ISBN | 9781526610362 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Circus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Boyle offers a cautionary account of those heady days as the Loney family suffers the personal costs of free love and freak-outs
Jeffrey Burke, Mail on Sunday
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A pitch-dark sex comedy
Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail
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The undisputed master … Boyle is brilliant at charting the currents of euphoria and idealism around Leary, the phantasmagorical effects of LSD, and Fitz's eventual slide into self-destruction. Boyle blurs the boundaries between the fact and fiction, adding a novelistic shimmer and richness to what the histories already tell us … A roller-coaster morality tale of the road of excess leading to the palace of wisdom
Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph
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Boyle renders the hypnotic, quasi-academic mood of the commune skilfully, capturing the participants' initial belief that this was a serious spiritual quest. This moment in the mid-Sixties before the bonkers hippy movement of the west coast took over the counter-culture from the intellectuals from the east, is fascinating … As the story of one man's descent into madness, and the folly of communal living and doing drugs for breakfast it's a thrilling read
The Times
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A virtuoso performance by Boyle – joyous, mad-scientist slapstick, frightening, profound and even erotic
Herald
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By far and away one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today ... A mesmerising storyteller
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