Collins Modern Classics - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Collins Modern Classics)
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.
‘You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug – especially when it’s waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes’
Roaring down the desert highway, Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo are seeking out the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, they confront casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans, in surreal, chemically enhanced encounters.
Hilarious, hallucinogenic and subversive, Hunter S. Thompson’s semi-autobiographical novel is a cult classic and a masterpiece of gonzo journalism.
‘A scorching epochal sensation’ Tom Wolfe
”'A classic of our time” - Cormac McCarthy
”'Peers into the best and worst mysteries of the American heart” - Rolling Stone
”'There are only two adjectives writers care about…'brilliant' and 'outrageous'. Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them. Fear and Loathing is a scorching epochal sensation.” - Tom Wolfe
”'What goes on in these pages makes Lenny Bruce seem angelic… the whole book boils down to a mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out” - New York Times
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