Hunter Stockton Thompson gilt als Begründer des Gonzo-Journalismus, eines tiefgreifenden und subjektiven Reportagestils, bei dem der Journalist zum aktiven Teilnehmer und zur zentralen Figur der Erzählung wird. Seine Werke stürzen die Leser mitten in seine Erfahrungen und bieten eine rohe und oft satirische Betrachtung der amerikanischen Kultur. Thompsons Schreiben seziert Themen wie Desillusionierung, die Korruption von Idealen und die oft absurden Realitäten der Macht. Er schmiedete einen einzigartigen literarischen Weg und forderte die konventionelle Berichterstattung mit einer intensiv persönlichen und ikonoklastischen Stimme heraus.
William Hamilton, a talented baseball player at Boston College, appears headed for the Major Leagues, but just days before the draft a dead body turns up just outside his dorm room. Will this unfortunate turn of events derail his plans for the future?
Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews that range across his fabled career, Thompson reveals himself as mad for politics, which he thought was both the source of the country’s despair and, just maybe, the answer to it. At a moment when politics is once again roiling America, we need Thompson’s guts and wild wisdom more than ever.
W swojej reportażowej powieści Hunter S. Thompson dokonuje dekonstrukcji legendy i złej sławy Hell's Angels, najsłynniejszego amerykańskiego gangu motocyklowego. Przed napisaniem książki autor spędził rok z Aniołami Piekieł, próbując zrozumieć, kim tak naprawdę są. Dzięki jego fascynującej relacji czytelnik może przenieść się na chwilę do świata pijaństwa, rozpusty, przemocy, narkotyków i zawrotnych prędkości, aby zdać sobie sprawę, że bezprawie rządzi się w istocie swoistymi prawami. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) - amerykański reporter oraz autor książek utrzymanych w stylu gonzo, w tym kultowej powieści Lęk i odraza w Las Vegas, na podstawie której Terry Gilliam wyreżyserował film z Johnnym Deppem w roli głównej. Zginął śmiercią samobójczą, strzelając sobie w głowę.
Enhanced by new biographical material, a visual biography collects the gonzo journalist's photography and archives, featuring many photographs taken by Thompson himself, accompanied by writings and memorabilia.
This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a writer's evolution at the magazine that he helped put on the map. From Thompson's first piece - on his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Party platform - to his last essay on the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004, via portraits of Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam and Muhammad Ali, this volume also includes some articles not previously collected, as well as correspondence between Thompson and his friend and editor Jann S. Wenner. The result is a vital portrait of a writer as he pursues his lifelong obsession: The Death of the American Dream. Edited with an Introduction by Jann S. Wenner 'Glorious . . . wave upon wave of wild, ferocious, perfectly rendered prose . . . Thompson changed the meaning of journalism.' Wall Street Journal 'The great comic writer of the twentieth century.' Tom Wolfe
Er ist ein einmaliges Phänomen: Ikone der amerikanischen Gegenkultur, König des Gonzo- Journalismus und wegweisender Kultautor. Hunter S. Thompson ist nach wie vor in aller Munde, seine Meisterschaft bleibt unerreicht. Die Rolling-Stone-Jahre setzen ihm ein Denkmal: Aus bislang unveröffentlichten Briefen und Thompsons wohl größten Arbeiten für den legendären Rolling Stone entsteht das Bild eines einzigartigen Künstlers, den man so nah und intensiv noch nie erlebt hat.
In verschiedenen Interviews gibt Hunter S. Thompson Aufschluss über sein Leben, seine Arbeitsweise als Gonzo-Journalist und über sein Schreiben.
'Better Than Sex' is Hunter S. Thompson's account of what happens to campaign junkies behind the scenes of a victorious American presidential campaign.
A collection of interviews with the great gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. Gonzo was a wild, often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times. In the three great collections of Gonzo writings, The Great Shark Hunt, Generation of Swine, and Songs of the Doomed he dissected the 60s, 70s, and 80s with violence, wit, anger, and occasional compassion. Collected together for the first time, The Gonzo Papers Anthology is an indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity, and a remarkably skewed common sense. 'Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral' William F. Buckley 'No other reporter reveals how much we have to fear and loathe, yet does it so hilariously' Nelson Algren