Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
Random House Publishing Group · Hardcover · May 5, 1998
The 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s—and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”—featuring the original artwork by Ralph Steadman and a new introduction by Caity Weaver First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is told through Hunter S. Thompson’s story of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “check it out.” The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force.
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- Who it’s for
- A Las Vegas assignment becomes a jagged, comic lens on the 1960s and gonzo journalism.
- Themes
- 1960s America, Gonzo journalism, Journalistic assignment
- Genres
- Short Stories (Single Author), American Literary Collections, Essay Collections
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The 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s—and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”—featuring the original artwork by Ralph Steadman and a new introduction by Caity Weaver First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is told through Hunter S. Thompson’s story of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “check it out.”
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The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has “a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.” This 50th-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman’s original drawings, a new introduction by New York Times writer Caity Weaver, and three companion pieces selected by Thompson: “Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,” and “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.”
Gonzo, Unbuttoned
A Las Vegas assignment becomes a jagged, comic lens on the 1960s and gonzo journalism.
Come here for
- Savagely comic prose with the restless edge of gonzo journalism
- A view of the 1960s refracted through one Las Vegas assignment
Expect
- Ralph Steadman’s original drawings and a new introduction by Caity Weaver
- Three companion pieces selected by Thompson
Where it sits
| Essay Collections | 78% |
|---|---|
| American Literary Collections | 59% |
| Short Stories (Single Author) | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in Journalism
- 20th-Century America
- Pacific West Travel (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
- Authors
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- May 5, 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- 1960s America · Gonzo journalism · Journalistic assignment
- Reading lane
- Lives in Journalism