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Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, they confront casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans, in surreal, chemically enhanced encounters. Hilarious, hallucinogenic and subversive, Hunter S. Thompson’s semi-autobiographical novel is a cult classic and a masterpiece of gonzo journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A scorching epochal sensation’ Tom Wolfe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201323565234,"sku":"9780008557546","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008557546.jpg?v=1785658960"},{"product_id":"9780141187457","title":"Hell's Angels","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. 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Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Big Frank, Little Jesus and the Gimp. \u003ci\u003eHell's Angels \u003c\/i\u003eis the hair-raising result: a free-wheeling, impressionistic counter-culture classic that made Hunter S. Thompson's name as the wild man of American writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005) began writing as a sports columnist in Florida. He has worked on newspapers and magazines, becoming South American correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eNational Observer\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Determined to discover the truths behind the terrifying reputation of those marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Big Frank, Little Jesus and the Gimp. \u003ci\u003eHell's Angels\u003c\/i\u003e was the result: a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of Gonzo journalism, and made Thompson's name as the wild man of American writing.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224582304117,"sku":"9780141041872","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141041872_0931afbd-5ee7-4cb8-9f58-faab20660d33.jpg?v=1786010980"},{"product_id":"9780241196496","title":"Kingdom of Fear","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down . . . let's have a little fun . . .'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It \u003cbr\u003eis a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes. He also takes on his dissolute youth in Louisville; his adventures in pornography; campaigning for local office in Aspen; and what it's like to accidentally be accused of trying to kill Jack Nicholson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56228966793589,"sku":"9780241196496","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241196496_767830ac-3862-42b9-bc51-0448b94f8836.jpg?v=1786012481"},{"product_id":"9780241960417","title":"Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compilation of the subversive, important and entertaining writer of Hunter S. 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In this brilliant and hair-raising expose, he journeys with the last outlaws of the American frontier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mixture of journalism, story-telling and sheer bravado, \u003ci\u003eHell's Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is Hunter S. Thompson at full throttle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Excellent documentary non-fiction' \u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The maverick voice of American counterculture' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There are only two adjectives writers care about any more - \"brilliant\" and \"outrageous\" - and Hunter has a freehold on both of them' Tom Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The book that made Thompson's name'\u003ci\u003e Loaded\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1937. He began his writing career as a sports columnist in Florida and went on to work on newspapers and magazines in New York, San Juan and Rio de Janeiro. 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Thompson’s intimate letters begins with a high school essay written in 1955, and takes us through 1967, when the publication of \u003ci\u003eHell’s Angels\u003c\/i\u003e made the author an international celebrity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThompson’s prolific and often profound correspondence gives us an unforgettable insight into the world during the Cold War era, as well as an authoritative introduction to the cultural revolution of the sixties. With a vicious eye for detail and rude wit he writes to such luminaries as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Lyndon Johnson and Joan Baez. These letters represent the evolution of the original, a singular voice defying an era of banality, and cements Thompson’s reputation as one of the great romantic journalistic figures of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299157127541,"sku":"9781408822937","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781408822937_07e346c1-50e6-4818-abe3-e5b86f6e414b.jpg?v=1786019767"},{"product_id":"9780008778842","title":"Generation of Swine","description":"The second volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary 'Gonzo Papers'.Thompson at his apocalyptic best – covering emblematic events from the 1980s.In this collection of columns written for the San Franciso Examiner Hunter S. Thompson investigates the Swine of the Week with his signature vengeful exuberance and apocalyptic political vision. From L.A.’s Erotic Film Awards to immigration raids, the War on Almost Everything and his Caligulan disappointment in TV evangelists, ‘Dr Gonzo’ diagnoses the ‘huge brains, small necks, weak muscles and fat wallets’ of the worst of the worst in American New Politics – mad gamblers, hostile cabin crew and a very elderly president – a whole generation of swine.This snapshot of the late '80s provides a prophetic insight into the making of today’s America. With a show-biz penchant for the Book of Revelation, Thompson risks what’s left of his immortal soul to descend deep into the strange seedy world of Reagan’s White House. 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Thompson hits the election trail again, covering the 1992 presidential campaign, in all of its horror and glory.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367714468213,"sku":"9780008778880","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008778880_e8f2322c-c956-4f5f-b7d6-05e1a4a569ae.jpg?v=1786011572"},{"product_id":"9780008778828","title":"The Great Shark Hunt","description":"An indispensable compendium of Hunter S Thompson's best of Gonzo.Originally published in 1979, The Great Shark Hunt, the first volume of the bestselling 'Gonzo Papers' is Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work. These essays cover Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine, offering brilliant commentary and outrageous humour, in signature Thompson style.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367714828661,"sku":"9780008778828","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008778828_7cdb751a-d738-421a-a4ef-b747225fc798.jpg?v=1786011570"},{"product_id":"fear-and-loathing-in-america","title":"Fear and Loathing in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The music made by the language resembles gunfire, or an exploding grenade ... he fires off missives as though they were missiles' - Observer'Very few editions of collected letters are worth reading from cover to cover, but this is one' - Scotland on Sunday'There are only two adjectives writers care about any more - \"brilliant\" and \"outrageous\" - and Hunter has a freehold on both of them' - Tom Wolfe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado, creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years - addressed to authors and friends, enemies, editors and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut - is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481422897525,"sku":"9780747553458","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780747553458.jpg?v=1786089683"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-hunter-s-thompson.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}