Hunter S. Thompson

American writer Hunter S. Thompson was born in 1937 and raised in Kentucky. When he was 14, his father died of a rare immune disorder. Thompson transferred high schools, and was accepted into the prestigious Athenaeum Literary Association. The club was populated by the socially elite, wealthy young people of Louisville. Thompson contributed articles and editorials for over two years, but was banned from the association after being arrested in connection with a robbery and spending 30 days in prison. In 1964, Thompson was commissioned by The Nation magazine to write a short article about the Hell′s Angels.

In 1971, Thompson published his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. The book is a drug-fuelled, manic, funny and terrifying detailing of two trips to Las Vegas. Much of the narrative is largely non-linear, hallucinatory and surreal. In 2005, Thompson committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. He had been struggling with many chronic medical conditions.

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Hunter S. Thompson

ISBN:

9780684873176

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Publication Date:

2010

Binding:

Hardcover

Synopsis:
A final volume of a three-part collection of previously unpublished letters spans a nearly thirty-year period at the end of the twentieth century and offers insight into such elements in the late writer's life as his friendships and animosities, his political beliefs, and his iconoclastic career.

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