This listing is for
an Advance Reading Copy of Wild Animus by Rich Shapero.  This is a
paperback edition, and in wnderful condition. 

Summary of the book (Publishers Weekly)

Shapero
unwisely uses the prologue of his debut novel to divulge the ending, so
the remaining 300 pages do little more than track one man's tedious
journey toward acid-induced madness. Drug dealer Sam Altman, an unhappy
and lonely student at the University of California–Berkeley in the late
1960s, meets and falls in love with equally unhappy and lonely Lindy at
an antiwar protest. Attempting to evade arrest for drug dealing, the
couple flee to Washington State, where Sam's chronic use of LSD leads
him to cut himself off from his friends, change his name to Ransom and
yearn to become "a fur-covered shaman, a wild ram-man, chanting the
liturgy of surrender." The pair end up in Alaska, where she waitresses
to support him while he writes a novel, masquerades as a mountain ram
and imagines he's being chased by a rout of wolves. Though Ransom's
hallucinations worsen by the day, Lindy and his few remaining friends
are too intimidated by his behavior and unhappy themselves to
intervene, leaving him to his tragic and inevitable end (which, of
course, has already been divulged). Shapero does have a talent for
vivid imagery, but this is still just a sad tale of a man whose drug
addiction drives him and everyone around him crazy.