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

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 12, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 224 pages
50th Anniversary Edition • With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist

This cult classic of gonzo journalism 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.

Also a major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.

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About the author (1998)

Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937 — February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He was known for his flamboyant writing style, most notably deployed in�Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and nonfiction.�

The best source on Thompson's writing style and personality is Thompson himself. His books include�Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga�(1966),�Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream�(1972),�Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72�(1973);�The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time�(1979);�The Curse of Lono(1983);�Generation of Swine, Gonzo Papers Vol. 2: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's�(1988); and�Songs of the Doomed�(1990).

Bibliographic information

TitleFear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
AuthorHunter S. Thompson
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMay 16, 2008
ISBN0679785892, 9780679785897
Length224 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
  
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