Gonzo Highway
2000
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Hunter S. Thompson, roi de la controverse et inventeur du reportage « gonzo », laisse derrière lui cinquante ans de correspondance sauvage. Écrire aux grands de ce monde – Faulkner, Nixon, Joan Baez, Carter – comme à son entourage – créanciers, rédacteurs en chef, petites amies, dentistes – était pour lui une manière plus directe de se faire comprendre. Sa plume explosive transforme ses destinataires en ennemis potentiels et dévoile un esprit vif, halluciné, un sens inné de la moquerie et un goût démesuré pour l'excès. Gonzo Highway recueille quelque deux cents de ses missives. Un condensé féroce d'un demi-siècle de vie américaine.
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Author
Hunter S. Thompson
Author · 30 books
Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937-2005) was an American journalist and author, famous for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories. He is also known for his promotion and use of psychedelics and other mind-altering substances (and to a lesser extent, alcohol and firearms), his libertarian views, and his iconoclastic contempt for authority. He committed suicide in 2005.
