Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Paperback

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Paperback

by Hunter S. Thompson
$18.00
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Book Overview

A fiftieth-anniversary edition of the cult classic of gonzo journalism, hailed as "the best book on the dope decade" (The New York Times Book Review), featuring Ralph Steadman's original drawings and an introduction by Caity Weaver

The inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro

"A scorching epochal sensation!"--Tom Wolfe

First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever experienced. The writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out," the book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of the 1960s, one of the defining works of our time and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Opens everywhere on May 22, 1998.
ISBN9780679785897
Author Hunter S. Thompson
PublisherVintage
GenreEducation and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 1998
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Hunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937 and died in Colorado in 2005. 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. He originated "gonzo journalism," in which the reporter is a part of the story. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was made into a major motion picture, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp.

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