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Hell's Angels: Popular Penguins by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resulting in a masterpiece of underground reportage published in Penguin Modern Classics.'A phalanx of motorcycl ...Show more
Hey Rube : Blood Sport., the Bush Doctrine and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Culture
For decades, Hunter S. Thompson galvanized American journalism with his acerbic wit, radical ideas, and gonzo tactics. He continued his reign as 'the Unabomber of contemporary letters' ("Time") with "Hey Rube". Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson d ...Show more
Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Biography Memoir
"Gonzo" presents a rare look into the life of Thompson, whose groundbreaking style of "gonzo" journalism made him one of the greatest writers of his generation. For the first time, his photographs and archives have been collected into a visual biography worthy of his literary legacy.
Hunter S Thompson - The Last Interview and other conversations by Hunter S Thompson; David Streitfeld (ed.)
Category: Biography | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews tha ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Biography Memoir
Be afraid. Hunter S. Thompson - godfather of Gonzo, high priest of excess and supreme chronicler of the American nightmare - takes on the one subject too scary for anyone else to tackle: himself. In Kingdom of Fear, his long-awaited memoir, the Good Doctor looks back over decades of fast living, ha ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down...let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Popular Penguins
The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, a ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear - Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Last Days of the American Century by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Fiction
'I was drunk, crazed and heavily armed at all times . . .'Be Afraid. Hunter S. Thompson - hellraising author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, high priest of hedonism and supreme chronicler of the American nightmare - tells the uncensored story of a life dedicated to excess in this outrageous autobiogr ...Show more
Proud Highway - Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 by Hunter S. Thompson; William J. Kennedy (Foreword by); Douglas Brinkley (Editor)
Category: Biography
Indisputably a literary milestone, the public revelation of the private and most intimate letters of Hunter S. Thompson lays bare--better than even the most in-depth biography could ever do--the development, growth, and genius of one of America's most influential journalists. Deliriously entertaining.-- ...Show more
Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Short Stories
Including a chronicle of his first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confrontation and ending with an unnaturally poignant love story, "Screwjack" is an exhilarating collection of short stories. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, the three stories here 'build like Bolero to a faster & wilde ...Show more
The Gonzo Papers Anthology by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Biography
Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. "Gonzo" was a wild, often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times. In the three great collections of "Gonzo" writings, "The Great Shark ...Show more