Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Lucy in the Sky cover art

Lucy in the Sky

By: John Vorhaus
Narrated by: John Vorhaus
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Sprout cover art
Halfway cover art
Nickel Plated cover art
USA Noir cover art
Atlanta Burns cover art
Armadillos cover art
Jane Two cover art
An American Demon cover art
The Taqwacores cover art
The Castleton Files: Five Adventures cover art
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty cover art
Girl Mans Up cover art
Feed cover art
Paper Towns cover art
Be More Chill cover art
Something in the Way cover art

Summary

A coming-of-age tale set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1969, Lucy in the Sky lightly touches on such weighty issues as the meaning of life, the purpose of art, and the existence of God. For those interested in answers to The Big Questions or just keen to revisit a simpler time, Lucy in the Sky promises a fun and compelling trip - and that's trip in every sense of the word.

Gene Steen is an earnest, intelligent, truth-seeking teen stuck in the cultural wasteland of his suburban home. He wants to be a hippie in the worst way, but hippies are scarce on the ground in the forlorn Midwest of Gene's 15th year. Then, propitiously on the summer solstice, his life is turned upside down by the arrival of his lively, lovely, long-lost cousin Lucy. She's hip beyond Gene's wildest dreams and immediately takes him under her wing. Lucy teaches Gene that being a hippie isn't about love beads and peace signs, but about the choices you make and the stands you take. Yet for all her airy insights into religion, philosophy and "the isness of it all", Lucy harbors dark secrets - secrets that will soon put her on the run with Gene by her side.

Lucy in the Sky resonates of such classics as Summer of '42 and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and invites the listener into a richly detailed vision of the 60s, as realized by Vorhaus's sure-handed prose and authentic sense of place and time. With frank talk about sex and drugs, Vorhaus pulls no punches about the realities of the era, yet delivers an uplifting message about personal power and the path to enlightenment. A rewarding listen for young seekers and old geezers alike.

©2012 John Vorhaus (P)2017 Spoken Word Inc

What listeners say about Lucy in the Sky

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.