Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas von Hunter S. Thompson
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 230 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Verlag: HarperCollins UKHarper Perennial
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780007204496

'There are only two adjectives writers care about..."brilliant"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 angelic...the whole book boils down to a mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer's"An American Dream"left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.'New York Times

The captivating memoir of countercultural journalism and social commentary

'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 ..."'

'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. Thompson's 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. Thompson's musings on the collapse of the American Dream.

4GBHunter S. Thompson wurde 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky geboren. Er begann seine Laufbahn als Sportjournalist, bevor er Reporter für den Rolling Stone und als Begründer des Gonzo-Journalismus zu einer Ikone der Hippiebewegung wurde. Hunter S. Thompson nahm sich am 20.02.2005 in seinem Wohnort Woody Creek, Colorado, das Leben.

Hunter S. Thompson is incomparably the most celebrated exponent of the New Journalism. His books include Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (available in Flamingo) and Generation of Swine. The Proud Highway, the first of three volumes of his letters, was published in 1997.

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