Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Collins Modern Classics)

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Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompsons 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.

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A classic of our time Cormac McCarthy

Peers into the best and worst mysteries of the American heart Rolling Stone

There are only two adjectives writers care aboutbrilliant and outrageous. Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them. Fear and Loathing is a scorching epochal sensation. Tom Wolfe

What goes on in these pages makes Lenny Bruce seem angelic the whole book boils down to a mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailers An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out New York Times

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Hunter S. Thompson is incomparably the most celebrated exponent of the New Journalism. His books include Hells Angels, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 and Generation of Swine.Ralph Steadman is one of Britains best-known cartoonists and illustrators. His books include I, Leonardo and the bestselling illustrated Animal Farm.