Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - And Other American Stories (Hardcover, 50th-Anniversary Edition)

The 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s—and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”—featuring the original artwork by Ralph Steadman and a new introduction by Caity Weaver

First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is told through Hunter S. Thompson’s story of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “check it out.” The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has “a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.”

This 50th-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman’s original drawings, a new introduction by New York Times writer Caity Weaver, and three companion pieces selected by Thompson: “Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,” and “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.”

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1998
First published:	May 1998
Authors:	Hunter S. Thompson
Illustrators:	Ralph Steadman
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	282
Edition:	50th-Anniversary Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-60298-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-679-60298-4
Barcode:	9780679602989

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