Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Couverture souple

Thompson, Hunter S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0586081321 ISBN 13 : 9780586081327

Editeur : Flamingo, 1993

Synopsis

Stylish reissue of a classic novel 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hunter S. Thompson is incomparably the most celebrated exponent of the New Journalism. His books include Hell’s Angels, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (available in Flamingo) and Generation of Swine. The Proud Highway, the first of three volumes of his letters, was published in 1997.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

“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…"

So begins 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', ace Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's savage dissection of the American dream. As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter Thompson entered 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 an hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.

"'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' is a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives writers care about any more… 'brilliant' and 'outrageous'… and Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them."
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 Mailer's 'An American Dream' left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out."
NEW YORK TIMES

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flamingo
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0586081321
• ISBN 13: 9780586081327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible