Hunter S. Thompson — The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from Strange Time, 1980 год

16 мая, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from Strange Time - Hunter S. Thompson

Picador / —
‘Well… yes, and here we go again’ Dr Hunter S. Thompson
Indeed we do. Here, in one chunky volume, is the best of Gonzo. From Private Thompson in trouble with the Air Force, to the devastating portrait of the ageing Muhammad Ali. Taking in the Kentucky Derby, Freak Power in the Rockies, Nixon in ’68, McGovern in ’72, Fear and Loathing at the Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith – and much more. An indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity and horse-sense.

ISBN: 9780330261173
мягкая обложка, 640 стр.
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Hunter S. Thompson — Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness, 2005 год

2 мая, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness - Hunter S. Thompson

Simon & Schuster / —
Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated his readers with his acerbic wit and uncanny grasp of politics and history. His reign as «The Unabomber of contemporary letters» (Time) is more legendary than ever with Hey Rube. Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson doles out searing indictments and uproarious rants while providing commentary on politics, sex, and sports — at times all in the same column.
With an enlightening foreword by ESPN executive editor John Walsh, critics’ favorites, and never-before-published columns, Hey Rube follows Thompson through the beginning of the new century, revealing his queasiness over the 2000 election («rigged and fixed from the start»); his take on professional sports (to improve Major League Baseball «eliminate the pitcher»); and his myriad controversial opinions and brutally honest observations on issues plaguing America — including the Bush administration and the inequities within the American judicial system.
Hey Rube gives us a lasting look at the gonzo journalist in his most organic form — unbridled, astute, and irreverent.

ISBN: 9780684873206
мягкая обложка, 272 стр.
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Hunter S. Thompson — Better Than Sex, 1995 год

25 апреля, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Better Than Sex - Hunter S. Thompson

Random House USA / —

ISBN: 9780345396358
мягкая обложка, 272 стр.
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Hunter S. Thompson — Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80’s, 2003 год

30 марта, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's - Hunter S. Thompson

Simon & Schuster / —
Generation of Swine, the second volume of the legendary Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling «Gonzo Papers», was first published in 1988 and is now back in print.
Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best — covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP’s obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN — 24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and political analysis, Generation of Swine is vintage Thompson — prescient, incisive, and enduring.

ISBN: 9780743250443
мягкая обложка, 336 стр.
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Hunter S. Thompson — Hell’s Angels, 2003 год

1 марта, 2012 / Автор статьи: admin
Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

Penguin Group / —
With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these 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. Hell’s Angels was the result: a masterpiece of underground reportage whose freewheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of Gonzo journalism, and made Thompson’s name as the wild man of American writing.

ISBN: 9780141187457
мягкая обложка, 288 стр.
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Hunter S. Thompson — Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 2001 год

30 декабря, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist - Hunter S. Thompson

Simon & Schuster / —
Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it «deliriously entertaining»; Rolling Stone called it «brilliant beyond description»; and The New York Times celebrated its «wicked humor and bracing political conviction».
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 the author’s 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.

ISBN: 9780684873169
мягкая обложка, 784 стр.
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Hunter S. Thompson — Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century, 2003 год

5 декабря, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century - Hunter S. Thompson

Simon & Schuster / —
Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson’s infamous rule breaking — in his journalism, in his life, and of the law — changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Thompson’s life as a rebel — from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances.
Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the formative experiences that comprise Thompson’s legendary trajectory alongside the weird and the ugly. Whether detailing his exploits as a foreign correspondent in Rio, his job as night manager of the notorious O’Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, his epic run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, or the sensational legal maneuvering that led to his full acquittal in the famous 99 Days trial, Thompson is at the peak of his narrative powers in Kingdom of Fear. And this boisterous, blistering ride illuminates as never before the professional and ideological risk taking of a literary genius and transgressive icon.

ISBN: 9780684873244
мягкая обложка, 384 стр.
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Hunter S. Thompson — Ancient Gonzo Wisdom, 2010 год

3 ноября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom - Hunter S. Thompson

Picador / —
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded over the decades in the pages of Playboy, the Paris Review, Esquire, in various lectures, and in television appearances, many in print for the first time. Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some of the most storied episodes of Thompson’s life: his savage beating at the hands of the Hell’s Angels, his talking football with Nixon on the 1972 Campaign Trail (‘the only time in twenty years of listening to the treacherous bastard that I knew he wasn’t lying’); his razor-sharp insight into the Bush-Cheney administration, his unlikely run for Sheriff of Aspen, and his successful public battle, during the last years of his life, to free an innocent woman from prison. In addition, Hunter Thompson’s passionate tirades about journalism, culture, drugs, guns, and the law showcase his singular voice at its fiercest. Complete with an exclusive introduction by author, journalist, and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens, Ancient Gonzo Wisdom genuinely embraces the brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson — his life, his voice, and his legacy — to provide an enduring portrait of the great gonzo journalist. ‘Four years after his death, the rapid-fire wit and venom of Thompson’s writing is undiminished. Ancient Gonzo Wisdom features classic HST interviews’ — GQ.

ISBN: 978-0-330-51072-1
мягкая обложка, 412 стр.
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Hunter S. Thompson — The Rum Diary, 1999 год

7 сентября, 2011 / Автор статьи: admin
The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson

Simon & Schuster / —
Based on Thompson’s own experiences as a reporter in Puerto Rico in the late ’50s and early ’60s, this «long-lost coming-of-age novel» («San Francisco Chronicle») tells a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in a Caribbean boom town.

ISBN: 978-0-684-85647-6
мягкая обложка, 224 стр.
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