Collins Modern Classics: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Collins Modern Classics: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S Thompson
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
26 May 2022 UK
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9780008557546
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Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson' s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. ' We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. . . And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. . . ' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of ' heinous chemicals' . His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.

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' 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
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 ' 72 and Generation of Swine. Ralph Steadman is one of Britain' s best-known cartoonists and illustrators. His books include I, Leonardo and the bestselling illustrated Animal Farm.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008557546
Published: 26 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 224

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