Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Modern Library) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (Flamingo modern classics)

by Hunter S Thompson

Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)

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Stylish reissue of a classic 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 there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas...' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter...Read more
  • ISBN10 1417665882
  • ISBN13 9781417665884
  • Publish Date 1 May 1998 (first published 1 December 1982)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 7 April 2021
  • Imprint Turtleback Books
  • Edition Turtleback School & Library ed.
  • Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
  • Pages 204
  • Language English