Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

图书信息

作者	Hunter S. Thompson
出版社	Harper Perennial
ISBN	9780007596713
出版时间	2014-10-16
字数	26.8万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive …”’ Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans. This stylish reissue of Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic masterpiece, a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971, features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original. It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror of Hunter S. Thompson’s musings on the collapse of the American Dream.

目录

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Part One

2. The Seizure of $300 from a Pig Woman in Beverly Hills

3. Strange Medicine on the Desert … a Crisis of Confidence

4. Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns … Rude Vibes on a Saturday Evening in Vegas

5. Covering the Story … A Glimpse of the Press in Action … Ugliness & Failure

6. A Night on the Town … Confrontation at the Desert Inn … Drug Frenzy at the Circus-Circus

7. Paranoid Terror … and the Awful Specter of Sodomy … A Flashing of Knives and Green Water

8. “Genius ’Round the World Stands Hand in Hand, and One Shock of Recognition Runs the Whole Circle ’Round”

9. No Sympathy for the Devil … Newsmen Tortured? … Flight into Madness

10. Western Union Intervenes: A Warning from Mr. Heem … New Assignment from the Sports Desk and a Savage Invitation from the Police

11. Aaawww, Mama, Can This Really Be the End? … Down and Out in Vegas, with Amphetamine Psychosis Again?

12. Hellish Speed … Grappling with the California Highway Patrol … Mano a Mano on Highway 61

Part Two

2. Another Day, Another Convertible … & Another Hotel Full of Cops

3. Savage Lucy … ‘Teeth like Baseballs, Eyes like Jellied Fire’

4. No Refuge for Degenerates … Reflections an a Murderous Junkie

5. A Terrible Experiance with Extremely Dangerous Drugs

6. Getting Down to Business … Opening Day at the Drug Convention

7. If You Don’t Know, Come to Learn … If You Know, Come to Teach

8. Back Door Beauty … & Finally a Bit of Serious Drag Racing on the Strip

9. Breakdown an Paradise Blvd.

10. Heavy Duty at the Airport … Ugly Peruvian Flashback … ‘No! It’s Too Late! Don’t Try It!’

11. Fraud? Larceny? Rape? … A Brutal Connection with the Alice from Linen Service

12. Return to the Circus-Circus … Looking for the Ape … to Hell with the American Dream

13. End of the Road … Death of the Whale … Soaking Sweats in the Airport

14. Farewell to Vegas … ‘God’s Mercy on You Swine!’

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