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    "annotation": "A novel about a young couple who get caught up the LSD experiments of Dr Timothy Leary in the early 1960s, from the author of }Drop City{ and }The Women{. 'Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges' Barbara Kingsolve",
    "description": "<b>One family's adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)</b>\n<b>\nChosen as a Book of the Year 2019 by the <i>Herald</i>\n\n</b>It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to support their son, they are not the sort of people one would expect to be seduced by the nascent drug culture. But their nights on LSD prove so extraordinary - so revelatory, so earth-shattering, so downright seductive - that Fitzhugh and Joanie are soon captive to the whims of the charismatic and subversive Dr Tim.\n \nFollow Fitzhugh and Joanie on their quest for transcendence, as sultry Mexican nights at Hotel Catalina give way to a ramshackle mansion in upstate New York, where thirty devotees - students, wives and children - play out the final act of a terrible, beautiful experiment.\n \nJoin us, won't you? It's going to be one hell of a trip.",
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