Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson /

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Author / Creator:Thompson, Juan F., author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
©2016
Description:xii, 274 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10459919
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ISBN:9780307265357
0307265358
9781101875865
Notes:"Borzoi book"
Summary:"An intimate, close-up portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, fearless outlaw journalist, "avenging proxy for the American polity," whose manic first-person articles and exposés so interwoven with the getting of the story, gave rise to gonzo journalism (gonzagas-"fooled you"; bizarre). A portrait of the man: writer, brother, husband, manic searching soul who grew up with the times he inhabited, and in part created; a portrait most of all of the father: the alcoholic, drug fueled, charismatic, irresponsible, idealistic, sensitive man, by the son who lived through it all and thrived to tell the dangerous, complex, loving tale"--