Hunter S Thompson - Böcker

Redan första kvällen i San Juan hamnar New York-skribenten Paul Kemp på Als Backyard en kvarterskrog känd för sina hamburgare, romdrinkar och de vilda journalistfyllon som gjort haket till sitt stamställe. De flesta jobbar på Pauls nya arbetsplats...

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Reissue of a 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 t...

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... oväsendet var som ett jordskred, eller en överflygande formation bombplan. Trots att jag kände Angels rätt väl vid det här laget kunde jag inte riktigt hantera vad jag såg. Det var som en blandning av Djingis Khans härjningar, Morgans Raiders,...

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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 m...

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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 pres...

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The first volume of the 'Gonzo Papers' brings together a selection of the legendary American journalist's articles, cultural commentary, rants, and essays on subjects ranging from the Super Bowl and Watergate to napalm, Las Vegas, Hemingway, Brand...

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From the author of THE RUM DIARY and THE PROUD HIGHWAY, a humorous novel which tells of two men on a drug-enhanced trip to Las Vegas, and their experiences with various people.

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First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in printby popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Laneand no ...

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A rare collection of wild and outlandish short stories?long thought to be lost?by literary legend Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter S. Thompson's notorious triptych Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be ...

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Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyze whole towns with fear, so terrible was their reputation. But how much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality? This book seeks ...

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From the author of THE RUM DIARY and THE PROUD HIGHWAY, a humorous novel which tells of two men on a drug-enhanced trip to Las Vegas, and their experiences with various people.

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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 quit...

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'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down . . . let's have a little fun . . .' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuell...

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From the legendary journalist and creator of "Gonzo" journalism, Hunter S. Thompson comes the bestselling critical look at Nixon and McGovern's 1972 presidential election. Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on ...

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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come. You can turn your back on a person, b...

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Letters spanning the years between 1968 and 1976 highlight the author's biting wit, scary powers of observation, and encounters with such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut.

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The author's harrowing and critically acclaimed first book chronicles his year riding with the Hell's Angels and other motorcycle gangs, an experiment that ended when he was beaten nearly to death by a group of Angels. 20,000 first printing. NYT.

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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, a...

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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 presi...

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'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "e;I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ..."e;'Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highw...

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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 truths be...

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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, document...

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'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down . . . let's have a little fun . . .'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 bla...

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A compilation of the subversive, important and entertaining writer of Hunter S. Thompson - renowned American writer of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the...

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This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page.  It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals o...

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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 stree...

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Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to...

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"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."--The Philadelphia InquirerSince his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hun...

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America's greatest gonzo hits the hustings in this hilarious and timely report on last year's hideous race for the White House. The inimitable Thompson takes us on his special brand of a surreal campaign swing--and relives the lowlights, oddities,...

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In his final work before his death in 2005, Thompson put together his most hilarious, thought-provoking, genuine, outlandish, and highly irreverent writings from his career as columnist on ESPN.com's popular Page 2. This look at Gonzo journalism i...

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