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'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.
| ISBN | 0007204493 | | Pages | 240 | | ISBN13 | 9780007204496
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 171 | | Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers | | Published in | London | | Imprint | HarperPerennial | | Series title | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780007161232 | | Publication date | 04 Apr 2005 | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Illustrator | Ralph Steadman | | Width (mm) | 130 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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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 Buy the ticket, take the ride - Allan anyonThe very reason I had trouble defining this book is one of the many things that makes it great. Is it journalism? Or is it a mostly a half imagined account of drug induced madness...probably both. This is a book both of it's time and also ahead of it's time, hard to read due to the very wild original writing style but once you are in that world you are hooked, literally. - JULIEN RYLE - Blackwell Head Office, OxfordGonzo journalism at its best! Hilariously funny; full of warped imagery and tense, drug-fuelled encounters. - Martin Whaley - Blackwell Head Office, Oxford Write a review
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