IN THE HOUSE OF MY FEAR

Name: IN THE HOUSE OF MY FEAR
Brand: COUNTERPOINT PR
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By Joel Agee

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In the spring of 1964, Joel Agee, not quite at home in his native New York (having spent much of his youth behind the Iron Curtain), accidentally ingests a sizeable dose of LSD. He is thrown from the precincts of bohemian normalcy into a whirl of bizarre synchronicities, symbols, and omens. His brilliant, mentally ill younger brother is descending into a psychic netherworld without chemical inducement, and the culture at large is undergoing a mutation of its own. A small inheritance comes Joel's way. Together with his wife and their infant daughter, he emigrates in search of kindred souls. On the way, a fantastic project takes root in his imagination: to exorcize his brother's madness by transforming his own consciousness, first with "acid,” then in a quest for enlightenment under the tutelage of spiritual teachers. Thirty years later, a sobered Joel Agee sets himself the task of recounting his adventures. Somewhere, he knows, the ghosts of past terrors-his own and his brother's, who died by his own hand at the age of twenty-seven-are still trapped and crying for release. To find them, to save them, he must write his way into the house of his fear.

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Number of Pages:: 416
Release Date:: 2004-10-04
Publication Date:: 2004-10-31
Publisher:: COUNTERPOINT PR
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1593760450
ISBN13:: 9781593760458
Weight:: 780 g
Height:: 164 cm
Width:: 236 cm
Thickness:: 37 cm

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