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RE/Search #11: Pranks!

RE/Search Publications

Date

1987

Publisher

RE/Search Publications

Format

Anthologies

ISBN

978-0-9650469-8-5

Size

22 × 29 × 2.5 cm

Length

233 pp

Genre

Interview

Description

“This book is my bible.” —Anonymous Fun-Lover

Limited edition autographed hardback printed on glossy art paper. This edition supersedes all previous editions; the photos are so much sharper!

Readers have described this book as “a Handbook to Live By,” “a Philosophy Text” and a “Survival Manual.” Some people keep this in their bathroom; others by their beds, and still have others have completely worn out their copies and re-ordered this NEW EDITION.

Here pranksters such as Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Monte Cazazza, Jello Biafra, Earth First!, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, John Waters and Henry Rollins (and more) challenge the sovereign authority of words, images and behavioral convention. This iconoclastic compendium will dazzle and delight all lovers of humor, satire and irony. 240 pages, many photographs.

Only 500 hardbacks on better glossy art paper for sharper photographic reproduction.

“Pranks is absolutely fascinating – remarkable source material for any experimental psychologist. It crosses the whole spectrum from mere pranks and practical jokes into concept art and the shaky foundations of a lot of everyday reality, and beyond that into pure psychopathy, in a few cases. One of your very best books yet.” — J.G. Ballard

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