ALTERED STATES.
by Chayefsky, Paddy (1923-1981)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a near fine jacket (slight spine slant)
- ISBN 10
- 0060107278
- ISBN 13
- 9780060107277
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Harper & Row,, (1978). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine jacket (slight spine slant). First printing. The first (and only) novel by this award-winning playwright and screenwriter, the story of a young scientist's experiment with sensory deprivation - "entombed in an isolation tank and fed with a powerful hallucinogenic drug in an attempt to find the origins of consciousness." Basis for the 1980 film directed by Ken Russell and starring William Hurt in his first movie. 184 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88887
- Title
- ALTERED STATES.
- Author
- Chayefsky, Paddy (1923-1981)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a near fine jacket (slight spine slant)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060107278
- ISBN 13
- 9780060107277
- Publisher
- Harper & Row,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1978)
- Keywords
- first novel, playwright, hallucigenics, movie tie-in,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror and dark fantasy;
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