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Freelancer Carroll, who apparently debauched with the legendary gonzo journalist, recounts her experiences here in the precious, faux gonzo voice of a semi-fictionalized alter ego, Laetitia Snap ("Truth being excusable in a Biographer . . ."). She intersperses her Thompson escapades with an oral biography, assembling quotes rather than crafting a narrative. Carroll's interviewees--including Thompson's brother, mother, ex-girlfriend, ex-wife, colleagues, even George McGovern--offer many interesting observations on her subject's alienated youth, writing style, celebrityhood, behavior and journalistic influence. "He's both ultimately sane and crazy," declares one friend. Paul Perry's Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson (Nonfiction Forecasts, Nov. 16) is a more coherent biography; also, although Perry had fewer sources than Carroll, he had one she didn't: Thompson's sidekick illustrator Ralph Steadman. First serial to Esquire.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0671712055
- ISBN 13 9780671712051
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. For this biography, the author interviewed the most important people in the outlaw writer's life - family, friends, ex-wife, mistresses, Rolling Stone editors, bikers, drug-dealers, political operators, critics, strippers and debutantes. Carroll ranks Thompson as the greatest political journalist in America with whom he lived, drank, shot and broke the law at his rustic mountain retreat in Colorado. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003488787
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