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Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Fiction | 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
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: Fiction
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: Non-Fiction
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
The Great Shark Hunt (Gonzo Papers 1) by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Classics
'Well ...yes, and here we go again' Dr Hunter S. Thompson Indeed we do. Here, in one chunky volume, is the best of gonzo. From Private Thompson in trouble with the air force, to the devastating portrait of the ageing Muhammad Ali. Taking in the Kentucky Derby, Freak Power in the Rockies, Nixon in '68, M ...Show more
The Proud Highway (Book 1) by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Biography | Series: The Fear and Loathing Letters
Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter - a precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in Louisville, Kentucky. Before there was Doctor Thompson, there was Airman Thompson - the military's answer to Grantland Rice, protecting America by covering sports for his Florida ...Show more
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Classic Reads
Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend h ...Show more
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Classic Reads
Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend h ...Show more