In the spring of 1964, Joel Agee, not quite at home in his native New York (having spent much of his boyhood and youth behind the Iron Curtain), accidentally ingests a sizeable dose of LSD. All at once he is thrown from the precincts of bohemian normalcy into a whirl of bizarre synchronicities, symbols and omens. Nothing is ever the same again. Thirty years later a sobered Joel Agee sets himself the task of recounting his adventures. He begins as a memoirist, but the truth he is seeking is not just that of memory. This book is a rescue mission — to find the ghosts of his past he must write his way into the house of his fear.
- ISBN10 1593761082
- ISBN13 9781593761080
- Publish Date 5 May 2006 (first published 4 October 2004)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 26 November 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Counterpoint
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 484
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781593761080