Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Closed)

Product Description
Film tie-in edition of this classic book to coincide with the release of the film starring Johnny Depp and directed by Terry Gilliam.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘savage journey to the heart of the American dream’, introduced the world to Gonzo journalism, and the book has been a cult classic ever since. Now it’s being made into a major film starring Johnny Depp (Ed Wood, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? etc.) and directed by Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Time Bandits) of Monty Python fame. A cult classic of its own in the making.
Equipped with a veritable arsenal of heinous chemicals, Thompson and his comrade-in-arms Ralph Steadman confront casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted members of the Silent Majority with a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.
Review
‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives authors care about any more -“brilliant”and“outrageous”- and Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them’Tom Wolfe
From the Back Cover
“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…"
So begins 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', ace Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's savage dissection of the American dream. As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter Thompson entered Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have an hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.
Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp.
"'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' is a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives writers care about any more… 'brilliant' and 'outrageous'… and Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them."TOM WOLFE
About the Author
Hunter S. Thompson is incomparably the most celebrated exponent of the New Journalism. His books include Hell’s Angels, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (available in Flamingo) and Generation of Swine. The Proud Highway, the first of three volumes of his letters, was published in 1997.Ralph Steadman is one of Britain’s best-known cartoonists and illustrators. His books include I, Leonardo and the bestselling illustrated Animal Farm.