Hunter S. Thompson "Screwjack" Signed Limited Edition No. 157 of 300 [Very Fine]

Hunter S. Thompson

Published by Neville Publishing, 1991

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VERY FINE GUARANTEED . The condition is of the highest quality without any discernible flaws. Personally signed by Hunter S. Thompson, the American journalist and author, who rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967). Neville Publishing Inc, Santa Barbara, CA, 1991. Hunter S. Thompson "Screwjack" Signed Limited Edition. Signed by the author directly onto the limitation page of the book with his FULL signature which is very unusual for Hunter Thompson. Number 157 of only 300 produced. Hardcover book with no dust-jacket as issued. Very Fine without any flaws. Clean and square in gold embossed red cloth covered boards with Mohawk Superfine paper. Book Dimensions (est): 9" x 6" x 3/8" ABOUT THE BOOK. A rare collection of wild and outlandish short stories long thought to be lost by literary legend Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter S. Thompson s notorious triptych Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since its private printing in 1991. We live in a jungle of pending disasters, Thompson warns in the opening piece Mescalito, a fictionalized chronicle of his first mescaline experience and what it sparked in him while he was alone in an Los Angeles hotel room in February 1969 including a bout of paranoia that would have made most people just scream no, once and for all. But for Thompson, along with the downside came a burst of creativity too powerful to ignore. The result is a poetic, perceptive, and wildly funny stream-of-consciousness take on 1969 America as only Hunter S. Thompson could see it. Screwjack just gets weirder with its second offering, Death of a Poet, which describes a trailer park confrontation with a deservingly doomed friend. The heart of the collection lies in its final, title piece, an unnaturally poignant love story ostensibly written by Thompson s alias Raoul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. What makes the romantic tale Screwjack so touching, for all its strangeness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man s burden. Screwjack shows how brilliant a prose stylist Thompson really is, amid all the hilarity. As he puts it in his introduction, the three stories here build like Bolero to a faster and wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, and then drop him off a cliff.That is the desired effect. Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Hunter S. Thompson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include Hell s Angels, Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72, The Rum Diary, and Better than Sex. Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional article titled "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" for Scanlan's Monthly, which further raised his profile as a countercultural figure. It also set him on the path to establishing his own subgenre of New Journalism that he called "Gonzo", a journalistic style in which the writer becomes a central figure and participant in the events of the narrative. Seller Inventory # 9-118

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Title: Hunter S. Thompson "Screwjack" Signed ...
Publisher: Neville Publishing
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: Limited Edition

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