Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Paperback, New ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release date:	2005
First published:	April 2005
Authors:	Hunter S. Thompson
Illustrators:	Ralph Steadman
Dimensions:	196 x 130 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	224
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-720449-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-00-720449-3
Barcode:	9780007204496

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 | Review by: nic L.

H.S.T. Oscar Acosta Dwarves at the Polo Lounge Convertibles / White Whale Vegas Drugs Lizards Guns Nixon Room Service The Circus Circus Lucy with teeth like baseballs and eyes like jellied fire. Pure Gonzo genius...

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