First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." Backdropped alternately by the dusty motorbike race that Sports Illustrated sent Thomspson to cover, and the falsely glossed world of high-life casino living, this journal is laced with drugs, epiphanies and the wit that could only be borne of the two. The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. | Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas And Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters