Hell's Angels

Penguin Essentials

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<p>Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of <i>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</i> Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.<br><br><b>'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west... the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'</b><br><br>In September, 1964 a cavalcade of motorbikes ripped through the city of Monterey, California. It was a trip destined to make Hell's Angels household names across America, infamous for their violent, drunken rampages and feared for the destruction left in their wake. <br><br>Enter Hunter S. Thompson, the master of counter-culture journalism who alone had the ability and stature to ride with the Angels on their terms. In this brilliant and hair-raising expose, he journeys with the last outlaws of the American frontier.<br><br>A mixture of journalism, story-telling and sheer bravado, <i>Hell's Angels</i> is Hunter S. Thompson at full throttle.<br><br>'Excellent documentary non-fiction' <i>Time Out</i><br><br>'The maverick voice of American counterculture' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'There are only two adjectives writers care about any more - "brilliant" and "outrageous" - and Hunter has a freehold on both of them' Tom Wolfe<br><br>'The book that made Thompson's name'<i> Loaded</i><br><br>Hunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1937. He began his writing career as a sports columnist in Florida and went on to work on newspapers and magazines in New York, San Juan and Rio de Janeiro. His articles appeared in <i>Esquire, Rolling Stone magazine</i> and the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>. He is the author of a number of books, including <i>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, The Gre

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241951583

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

180 x 113 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)