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Jul 7, 1971 · Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson is profane, violent, disturbing, irreverent, and yet immaculately compelling. The reader is as entranced as a driver witnessing a bizarre car wreck, horrified but unable to turn away.
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- Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel in the gonzo journalism style by Hunter S. Thompson. The book is a roman à clef, rooted in autobiographical incidents.
- Hunter S. Thompson
- 1971
First published in Rolling Stone magazine in November 1971 and credited to “sports editor” Raoul Duke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has one of the most recognizable first lines in modern literature: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
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May 12, 1998 · In the book, Thompson and Dr, Gonzo go on a drug fueled safari through Las Vegas, envisioning terrors real and and unreal as both Vegas and hallucinogenics produce, giving us both laughs and at times wry wisdom.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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About Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 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.
- Paperback
This book is a semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles the adventures of a journalist and his attorney as they embark on a drug-fueled trip to Las Vegas. The narrative is a wild and hallucinatory exploration of the American Dream, filled with biting social commentary and outrageous antics.
Dec 1, 1982 · by Hunter S. Thompson (Author), Ralph Steadman (Illustrator) 4.5 9,932 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
