- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; illustrated edition edition (3 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674009142
- ISBN-13: 978-0674009141
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,287,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"Boon's new work reads... like a wide-eyed, joyous romp through a literary stateman's funhouse, where each room contains a masterfully told tale of opium or morphine, peyote or LSD, coffee or cocaine. We see a gallery of our most prized literary lions, many of them stripped bare of their pristine reputations. It is a mind-teasing exercise that is well worth the trip." - Rebecca Shannonhouse, Boston Globe; "Boon has written the most useful and engaging history of psychoactive lit yet. His prose is generous, unburried, and far too tasteful to gob up the page with theory. At the same time, he casts his net deep and wide, drawing in folks as disparate as Chaucer, Kant, and Iceberg Slim. Boon is not content to merely record the encounter between modern writers and drugs, he deepens the story as well, and, amazingly, he does it without exploiting the rhetoric of personal experience or subversive hip." - Erik Davis, Bookforum"
The Sunday Telegraph, 12 January 2001
As a guide to the literary history of drug-taking, his book is unlikely to be bettered for a long time.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
1 review
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
The First Truly Entertaining Book on Literary Criticism
29 April 2003
Format:Hardcover
Where did this guy Marcus Boon find the time to research all these facts? Amazing collection of the serious and the hysterical. He has definitely studied his area thoroughly. A perfect addition to the political/social/cultural issues of the times. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the involvement of drugs with creativity. Good read. You will definitely have a new must-read list after you're done with this book.
I'd buy another book by the same author.
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
