Hunter S. Thompson
Список книг автора Hunter S. ThompsonDie Odyssee eines Outlaw-Journalisten
In diesem Band erweist sich Hunter S. Thompson als großer Briefeschreiber, dessen Prosa, wie The New Republic einmal schrieb, getränkt war von «einer Art Rimbaud'schen Delirium», wie es nur «wenigen Genies» eigen ist. Und große amerikanische Autoren wie Tom Wolfe, William Kennedy oder James Salter erkannten, dass Thompson ein meisterhafter Stilist war und ein außergewöhnliches Gespür für abgründige Komik hatte. Vom Ende der fünfziger Jahre bis in die Zeit, als er mit seinem Hell's Angels Buch und mit «Angst und Schrecken in Las Vegas» berühmt wurde, als er für das Amt des Sheriffs in Pitkin County kandidierte und die Wahlkämpfe 68 und 72 begleitete, reicht die Zeitspanne, in der er trotz hektischer Aktivitäten, großer Artikel, ausgedehnter Reisen und trotz des ausgiebigen Konsums vieler Drogen und Alkohol Zeit fand für eine ausführliche Korrespondenz mit Leuten wie Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, Warren Hinckle, Oscar Acosta, Jann Wenner, aber auch mit Redakteuren, Lektoren, seiner Mutter, Freunden u.a. Hinzukommen Memos und Artikel, die noch nie veröffentlicht wurden.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive …”’Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans.This ebook edition of Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic masterpiece, a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971, features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original. It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror of Hunter S. Thompson’s musings on the collapse of the American Dream.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72
The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption.In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson, the creator and king of Gonzo journalism, covered the US presidential campaign for Rolling Stone magazine alongside the establishment newsmen of Washington. The result is a classic piece of subversive reportage and a fantastic ride on the rollercoaster of Hunter’s uniquely savage imagination. In his own words, written years before Watergate: ‘It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.’
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson’s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold… And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas…’As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of ‘heinous chemicals’. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.
