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A rare collection of wild and outlandish short stories?long thought to be lost?by literary legend Hunter S. Thompson.Hunter S. Thompson's notorious triptych Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since its private printing in 1991. "We live in a jungle of pending disasters, " Thompson warns in the opening piece "Mescalito, " a fictionalized chronicle of his first mescaline experience and what i...

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.

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Nel 1991 Hunter Thompson pubblicò un'edizione a tiratura limitatissima (poco più di 300 copie) di «Screwjack», un sottile volume con tre racconti svitati e originali. I volumi divennero velocemente oggetto di culto per collezionisti. Tre storie scorrette, folli ed esagerate che ci restituiscono il Gonzo nel pieno della sua follia creativa. «Mesolito» è la cronaca visionaria di una attesa in un albergo di Los Angeles sotto l'effetto di droghe. ...

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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.

In questo libro Hunter Thompson affronta i temi a lui più cari: lo sport e la politica. E come al solito, l'argomento trattato è un pretesto per affrontare questioni più ampie e dilungarsi sulle proprie esperienze personali. "La grande pesca allo squalo", che dà il titolo al volume, è l'articolo di Thompson che più si avvicina al celebre "Paura e delirio a Las Vegas": Hunter viene inviato da "Playboy" in Messico per documentare un torneo di pe...

Compiles together the varied conversations involving Hunter S. Thompson - some never before published - to reveal this celebrated trailblazer in fiction and journalism.

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 ...

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Pubblicato nel 1971 sulla mitica rivista "Rolling Stones", il libro narra del viaggio di un giornalista sportivo e del suo avvocato a bordo di una Chevrolet rossa. La meta è Las Vegas, dove si tiene la Mint 400, sgangherata corsa di moto e Dune-Buggy. Il viaggio si rivela allucinante, esilarante e disperato. I due protagonisti, sotto l'effetto della droga, assistono a una trasformazione totale della realtà, che assume le più imprevedibili sfac...

Hunter S. Thompson's semi-autobiographical first novel is the story of a frustrated young writer who embarks on a drunken, carousing journey through the boomtowns of Puerto Rico in the 1950s.

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution of a writer and a magazine. Jann S. Wenner, Hunter Thompsons editor and friend for nearly thirty-five years, has selected the piecesincluding many never collected beforeto show Hunters Rolling Stone writing, when taken as a whole, as an extended, allusive autobiography of the writer himself pursuing his lifelong obsession, the king-hell story of them all: The Death of the American Drea...

Er ist ein einmaliges Phänomen: Ikone der amerikanischen Gegenkultur, König des Gonzo- Journalismus und wegweisender Kultautor. Hunter S. Thompson ist nach wie vor in aller Munde, seine Meisterschaft bleibt unerreicht. Die Rolling-Stone-Jahre setzen ihm ein Denkmal: Aus bislang unveröffentlichten Briefen und Thompsons wohl größten Arbeiten für den legendären Rolling Stone entsteht das Bild eines einzigartigen Künstlers, den man so nah und inte...

In his final work before his death in 2005, Thompson put together his most hilarious, thought-provoking, genuine, outlandish, and highly irreverent writings from his career as columnist on ESPN.com's popular Page 2. This look at Gonzo journalism includes some never-before-published columns.

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Satirical novel, again first published in the 1970s, of the US presidential electoral process.