Hunter S. Thompson Libri

Chi erano davvero gli Hell's Angels, i leggendari motociclisti celebrati da Allen Ginsberg che negli anni sessanta terrorizzavano l'America con le loro scorribande? Era il 1965, e per scoprirlo Thompson si comprò una moto e per quasi un anno visse con loro, accompagnandoli nelle corse assordanti lungo la costa californiana, condividendone lo spirito anarchico e libertario. Tra risse e bevute si convertì alla "mistica della motocicletta", prendendo nota delle brutalità e delle stravaganze sessuali cui assisteva. Il risultato è una narrazione molto diversa da quella che ne fecero le isteriche cronache giornalistiche dell'epoca: un ritratto veritiero dello stile di vita e della filosofia dei primi bikers, parte integrante di un'epoca della storia americana in cui stavano emergendo con forza le controculture, il pacifismo e il dissenso verso il potere.

Gonzo is a tour de force that will take you into the world of American writer and iconoclast Hunter S. Thompson and is an indispensible companion to the Good Doctor's literary works.

This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a writer's evolution at the magazine that he helped put on the map. From Thompson's first piece - on his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Party platform - to his last essay on the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004, via portraits of Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam and Muhammad Ali, this volume also includes some articles not previously collected, as well as correspondence between Thompson and his friend and editor Jann S. Wenner. The result is a vital portrait of a writer as he pursues his lifelong obsession: The Death of the American Dream. Edited with an Introduction by Jann S. Wenner 'Glorious . . . wave upon wave of wild, ferocious, perfectly rendered prose . . . Thompson changed the meaning of journalism.' Wall Street Journal 'The great comic writer of the twentieth century.' Tom Wolfe

The Proud Highway is a literary milestone. For the first time, the private and most intimate correspondence of America's most influential journalist is being made public.

The first volume of the Gonzo papers shows the brilliant, ranting observations and cultural commentary of Thompson at his best.

"Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend."--Jacket.

Shows how the author build 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. schovat popis

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 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 of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.

An unorthodox account of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption.

In 1970s New York, Zachary Swan was a legend. Born at the peak of the Jazz Age with a silver spoon in his mouth, he ended up with that same spoon in his nose when he turned his talents to cocaine smuggling. In Snowblind, a rip-roaring modern classic, Robert Sabbag details Swan's rise, his ingenious and ever more baroque plans to outwit government agents, and the rapid end to his Roman-candle career. A captivating story of a dashing antihero, Snowblind is also a striking portrait of a turbulent age.

In this memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back over decades of fast living, hard drinking and sharp writing. 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.

Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. High priest of hedonism and godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was renowned for his counterculture masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which described his chemical-addled adventures in 1970s America. Taken from Thompson's brilliantly entertaining autobiography, Kingdom of Fear - the last book published before his death earlier this year - these pieces provide a hilarious but now also painful insight into the life and the mind of a true literary outlaw.

The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.

A collection of essays by Hunter Thompson that chart the high and low moments of his thirty-year career as a journalist

The sultry classic of a journalist's sordid life in Puerto Rico

Comments on the television coverage of Hurricane Gloria, blood pressure machines, the Super Bowl, the hijinks of televangelists, the Iran Contra hearings, the 1988 Presidential race, and more.

Suggesting the nascent ideas and energy of his seminal book on the 60s experience, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "Mescalito" features Duke's first mescaline trip. "We live in a jungle of pending disasters," the author warns. Alone in a hotel room in Los Angeles in February, 1969, Duke sustains a fever-pitched bout of paranoia so dark and depraved, it would make most mortals run fast -- and far -- from this kind of suicidal experimentation.

Er ist ein einmaliges Phänomen: Ikone der amerikanischen Gegenkultur, König des Gonzo- Journalismus und wegweisender Kultautor. Hunter S. Thompson ist nach wie vor in aller Munde, seine Meisterschaft bleibt unerreicht. Die Rolling-Stone-Jahre setzen ihm ein Denkmal: Aus bislang unveröffentlichten Briefen und Thompsons wohl größten Arbeiten für den legendären Rolling Stone entsteht das Bild eines einzigartigen Künstlers, den man so nah und intensiv noch nie erlebt hat.

" Hunter S. Thompson, grand allumé notoire, inventeur du "journalisme gonzo", le seul à pouvoir le pratiquer : ses reportages homériques sur des sujets aussi divers que le sport, la politique, la drogue, la musique, sont des longs papiers hurlants, où il apparaît comme le héros déjanté, bourré de drogues et d'alcool, "couvrant l'événement" de l'intérieur, c'est-à-dire du bar, du fond des chiottes ou de sa chambre d'hôtel totalement ravagée. Et le résultat est fantastique, car, contrairement à ce qu'on pourrait croire, il accroche au bout de sa plume géniale des lambeaux d'Amérique plus vrais que nature. C'est l'Amérique au vitriol, ses beaufs, ses marginaux hallucinés, ses porcs, sa beauté maladive et monstrueuse... Bien plus fort que Coluche ! Ce gars est un dangereux activiste comme on n'en fait plus. "Stan Cuesta, Rock & Folk

Endlich! Hunter S. Thompsons legendäres Meisterwerk jetzt in deutscher Sprache Hunter S. Thompson erhält den Auftrag, über den Honolulu-Marathon zu berichten: für ihn in erster Linie ein bezahlter Urlaub. Doch wie immer bei Thompson entwickelt sich die Reise zu einem durchgeknallten Trip, in den neben dem Marathon-Wahnsinn auch Surfer, Orkane, ein Riesen-Marlin und natürlich der hawaiianische Gott Lono irgendwie verwickelt sind. Der König des Gonzo-Journalismus beweist einmal mehr seine Meisterschaft: ein halluzinogenes Vergnügen.

Dutch

Die legendären Gonzo-Reportagen erstmals auf Deutsch Mit seinen Gonzo Papers wurde Hunter S. Thompson zu einem der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller Amerikas. Dieser einmalige Band versammelt jetzt erstmals die besten Reportagen und Artikel aus vier Jahrzehnten schonungslosem Journalismus. Ein absolutes Muss für alle Thompson-Fans! Mit dem Tod von Hunter S. Thompson verlor die Welt nicht nur ihren wohl unbestechlichsten, schonungslosesten und scharfzüngigsten Reporter, sondern auch einen Schriftsteller, der zu den ganz Großen der amerikanischen Literatur gezählt werden muss. Wie niemand vor ihm ging er mit den Verfehlungen, der Doppelmoral und der bigotten Heuchelei der westlichen Gesellschaft ins Gericht. Dieser Band vereint die besten Reportagen des genialen Erfinders des Gonzo-Journalismus aus vier Jahrzehnten unermüdlichen Kampfes gegen ein korruptes, verlogenes System. Von vorderster Front aus berichtet Thompson über die Missstände, denen er auf seinen unzähligen Reisen begegnet. Drogen, Politik, Armut – seine Nachrichten vom Rande des Abgrunds sind aufrüttelnd, erschütternd, aber auch hellsichtig, ätzend komisch und der Beweis für Thompsons großes schriftstellerisches Können.