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'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson

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'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'

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“A scorching, epochal sensation!”—Tom Wolfe, The New York Times

“[A book] in the zonked, road-writing tradition of Jack Kerouac.”—The New Republic, 1972

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.”

- description from Penguin Random House. Photo credited to Cashman Photo Enterprises, Inc. (on back cover of the 1972 first edition). Source, Wikipedia.

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