Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

hunter s. thompson ralph steadman

First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through 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 that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer's An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out." This Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loath-ing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Deca-dent and Depraved."

Genres fictionclassicshumorjournalismnovelsliteratureamericancontemporarytravelcomedy

208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 7,1971

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las vegas nevada, nevada,

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Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: January 1, 1982 by Warner Books
ISBN: 9780446313933
ASIN: 0446313939
Language: English

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He became internationally known with the publication of Hells Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1967), for which ...