Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Collins Modern Classics)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Collins Modern Classics)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Hunter S. Thompson
SeriesCollins Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9780008557546
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd
Publication Date 26 May 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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 '72 and Generation of Swine.Ralph Steadman is one of Britain's best-known cartoonists and illustrators. His books include I, Leonardo and the bestselling illustrated Animal Farm.

Reviews

'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 about..."brilliant" 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 Mailer's An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out' New York Times