THOMPSON S. HUNTER

Φόβος και παράνοια στο Λας Βέγκας
Ο ρεπόρτερ Ραούλ Ντιουκ και ο δικηγόρος του, εφοδιασμένοι με αποφασιστικότητα, κάθε λογής ναρκωτικά και πλαστές κάρτες, μπαίνουν σε μια ανοιχτή Σεβρολέτ και ξεκινούν από το Λος Άντζελες για το Λας Βέγκας, όπου πάνε να καλύψουν δημοσιογραφικά έναν αγώνα ταχύτητας μοτοσικλετιστών. Στην πραγματικότητα, όμως, πρόκειται για ένα ταξίδι αναζήτησης του αμερικάνικου ονείρου στην πόλη που είναι γνωστή ως η βασίλισσα του τζόγου. Κι ενώ βρίσκονται στο απόλυτο ηθικό κενό, βουτηγμένοι στις καταχρήσεις και στην ακολασία, τους αναθέτουν να παρακολουθήσουν...
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(P/B) FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
Stylish reissue of a classic 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 ...
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(P/B) Hell's Angels
Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west... the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.' In September, 1964 a cav...
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Μεθυσμένο ημερολόγιο
Ένα μπουκάλι ρούμι που μοιάζει να μην αδειάζει ποτέ, το Πουέρτο Ρίκο στα πρόθυρα της εξέγερσης και της τουριστικής ισοπέδωσης, κυνικοί τυχοδιώκτες που προσποιούνται τους δημοσιογράφους ακροβατώντας ανάμεσα στη φυλάκιση και τη φυγή, γυναίκες που κυνηγούν με λύσσα την επόμενη στιγμή, μαφιόζοι που το σκάνε όπως-όπως από την Κούβα του Κάστρο: Ένας ανερμάτιστος αλλά σαγηνευτικός συρφετός από ανθρώπους που με εξωπραγματική ελαφρότητα και σκυλίσια επιμονή γυρεύουν την "καλή" αλλά βρίσκουν μόνο το υγρό και αφιλόξενο Σαν Χουάν, κυνηγητά με την αστυ...
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(P/B) FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL '72
The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption. In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson, the creator and king of Gonzo journalism, covered the US presidential campaign for Rolling Stone magazine alongside the establishment newsmen of Washington. The result is a classic piece of subversive reportage and a fantastic ride on the rollercoaster of Hunter's uniquely savage imagination. In his own words, written years before Watergate: "It is Nixon hi...
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(P/B) KINGDOM OF FEAR
In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is 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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE RUM DIARY
Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al’s Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day is reaching a violent breaking point. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HELL'S ANGELS
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 free-wheeling,...
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(H/B) Hell's Angels
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels-Hell's Angels, that is-in this short work of nonfiction. "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his ex...
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(P/B) SCREWJACK
A perceptive and wildly funny short story collection from the father of gonzo. Including a chronicle of his first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confrontation and ending with an unnaturally poignant love story, Screwjack is an exhilarating collection of short stories. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, the three stories here 'build like Bolero to a faster & wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, & then drop him off a cliff... That is the Desired Effect.' Amid all the hilarity, Hunter S. Thompson proves ...
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(P/B) THE GREAT SHARK HUNT
'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. (From the publisher) 'Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind ...
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(P/B) THE PROUD HIGHWAY (VOLUME ONE)
Hunter S. Thompson's letters written between 1955 and 1967 offer a detailed and intimate insight into the early life of one of America's most famous counterculture figures and the founder of 'Gonzo journalism'. With recipients including William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Joan Baez, Tom Wolfe and Allen Ginsberg, as well as Thompson's friends and family, The Proud Highway is an intimate portrait of 1960s America from the perspective of one of the twentieth century's most extreme writers. (From the publisher) 'A true insight into the mind of ...
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(P/B) GENERATION OF SWINE
'Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like "certain death" and "total failure" and the idea of "a doomed generation". But not me. I am comfortable with these themes.' Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been writing a weekly column for the San Francisco Examiner for the last two years. Those columns are collected here to offer a chronicle of the adventures of a Generation of Swine. The incomparable 'Dr Gonzo' has journeyed no small distance in search of intelli...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
A carefully selected volume of rare (and in some cases never-before-published) conversations with the iconic writer, thinker, and rabble-rouser Hunter S. Thompson. More than a decade after his death, Hunter S. Thompson is as popular - and as relevant - as ever. Vigorously political, he anticipated the current situation in Washington. In Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, a collection that ranges from an early conversation with Studs Terkel, to a decade-long exchange with editor David Streitfeld, to his last pub...
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(P/B) SONGS OF THE DOOMED
"I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start... stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea." When Hunter S. Thompson has an idea, you just have to listen - and he shares many of his unique ideas in this collection of journalism, social commentary, short fiction and autobiography. Divided into sections by decade, Songs of the Doomed begins with a furious condemnation of the US justice system and e...
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(P/B) FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICA
Brazen, 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 ...
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(P/B) ANCIENT GONZO WISDOM
A COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS WITH THE GREAT GONZO JOURNALIST, HUNTER S. THOMPSON. 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 H...
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(H/B) GONZO
This new literary edition of GONZO is the size of a novel-the perfect companion to Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and the "Hell's Angel's." This new version includes all of the same compelling photographs, quotes, and graphics, and additionally, includes a new comprehensive biography on Thompson by writer and friend Ben Corbett. GONZO presents a rare look into the life of Thompson, whose groundbreaking style of "gonzo" journalism made him one of the greatest writers of his generation. Now, for the first time, his pho...
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(P/B) BETTER THAN SEX
The father of gonzo journalism takes to the campaign trail. Since his blazing 1972 opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again - without leaving home - yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign, in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton's top aides, and 100 per cent pur...
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(P/B) THE GONZO PAPERS ANTHOLOGY
Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. Gonzo was a wild, often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times. In the three great collections of Gonzo writings, The Great Shark Hunt, Generation of Swine, and Songs of the Doomed he dissected the 60s, 70s, and 80s with violence, wit, anger, and occasional compassion. Collected together for the first time, The Gonzo Papers Anthology is an indispensable compendium of decade...
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