We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive
Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans.
This stylish reissue of Hunter S. Thompsons iconic masterpiece, a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971, features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original. It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror of Hunter S. Thompsons musings on the collapse of the American Dream.
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There are only two adjectives writers care aboutbrilliant and outrageous. Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them. Fear and Loathing is a scorching epochal sensation. Tom Wolfe
What goes on in these pages makes Lenny Bruce seem angelicthe whole book boils down to a mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailers An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out. New York Times
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The captivating memoir of countercultural journalism and social commentary
Hunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1937 and died in Colorado in 2005. A full-time writer and journalist, he contributed regularly to a wide variety of publications, but is probably best known for his work as National Affairs correspondent for Rolling Stone, in which Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72 originally appeared. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has been made into a major film, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp.
Ralph Steadman is one of Britains best-known cartoonists and illustrators. His books include I, Leonardo and the bestselling illustrated Animal Farm.
