Screwjack

Informationen zum Autor Hunter S. Thompson is one of the great cultural figures of his generation. His writing spawned a whole genre (gonzo journalism) and myriad imitators, but he remained the first and the finest – a cult figure whose legacy and influence live on. Klappentext Including a chronicle of his first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confrontation and ending with an unnaturally poignant love story, Screwjack is an exhilarating collection of short stories. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, the three stories here 'build like Bolero to a faster & wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, & then drop him off a cliff . . . That is the Desired Effect.' Amid all the hilarity, Hunter S. Thompson proves just how brilliant a prose stylist he really is. Screwjack is salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical. 'Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral' William F Buckley 'There are only two adjectives writers care about anymore, brilliant and outrageous, and Hunter S. Thompson has a freehold on both of them' Tom Wolfe A perceptive and wildly funny short story collection from the father of gonzo Zusammenfassung A perceptive and wildly funny short story collection from the father of gonzo

Product details

• Authors: Hunter S. Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2010
• EAN: 9780330510769
• ISBN: 978-0-330-51076-9
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 4 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Reportage & collected journalism, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary