Outside looking in : a novel
(Pre-loaded Audiobook)

Title from container.

"HD."

"Light."

"Harper Audio."

Previously released by HarperCollins Publishers, �2019.

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Performed by Johnathan McClain.

"In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard is gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug's possibilities such that their "research" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living. With his trademark humor and pathos, Boyle moves us from the Loneys' initiation at one of Leary's parties through his notorious summer seminars in Zihuatanejo to the Loneys' eventual expulsion from Harvard and their introduction to a communal arrangement of thirty devotees -- students, wives, and children -- living together in a sixty-fourroom mansion and committing themselves to all kinds of experimentation and questioning. Is LSD a belief system? Does it allow you to see God? Can the Loneys' marriage -- or any marriage, for that matter -- survive the chaotic and sometimes orgiastic use of psychedelic drugs?"--,Provided by publisher.