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Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Title
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson / Juan F. Thompson.
- Author
- Thompson, Juan F.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-956 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 274 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Call Number
- JFD 16-956
- ISBN
- 9780307265357
- 0307265358
- LCCN
- 2015006934
- OCLC
- 2015006934
- Author
- Thompson, Juan F.
- Title
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson / Juan F. Thompson.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-956