The Great Shark Hunt
Dr. Hunter Thompson, the brilliantly notorious father of "Gonzo" journalism and iconoclastic author of such counterculture classics as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, launches this landmark collection of his most unforgettable reportage. Available for the first time in a trade paperback edition,...
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Dr. Hunter Thompson, the brilliantly notorious father of "Gonzo" journalism and iconoclastic author of such counterculture classics as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, launches this landmark collection of his most unforgettable reportage. Available for the first time in a trade paperback edition, it is the perfect companion to Generation of Swine, the second volume of Gonzo Papers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446314404 (0446314404)
Publish date: August 1st 1986
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
Pages no: 704
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
American,
Journalism,
Politics
Series: The Gonzo Papers (#1)
This book of Hunter S. Thompson essays and articles covers most of his early career, especially the time period when he was writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hell's Angels and the Watergate scandal. Many of these articles were incorporated into those other books, but a good portion of it hasn...
My favorite HST piece is in this book: his platform for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Power ticket.
By the time I finished college I wasn't as much of a Thompson fan as I had been going in. When I was a teen he was fresh, and ballsy, and exciting. A decade later he was just kind of strange and unsettling. I think this is the last book of his I ever read.Library copy.
29 years ago
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