{"product_id":"9780007204496","title":"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Thompson, Hunter S., Steadman, Ralph \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 April 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperPerennial) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Harper Perennial Modern Classics' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 14 | 164g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive …”’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This stylish reissue of Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic masterpiece, a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971, features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original. It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror of Hunter S. Thompson’s musings on the collapse of the American Dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43924929446147,"sku":"9780007204496","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780007204496_21ae2a35-06b5-4c90-bf12-b5c2c3a4e802.jpg?v=1731348053","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9780007204496","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}