{"product_id":"fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas-and-other-american-stories","title":"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tm-title-row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tm-title-text\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003eThe classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s—now in a 50th-anniversary edition featuring the original artwork by Ralph Steadman and a new introduction by Caity Weaver. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFirst published in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine in 1971,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's story of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and \"check it out.\" 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. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, it has \"a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eleft off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis 50th-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings, a new introduction by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ewriter Caity Weaver, and three companion pieces selected by Thompson: \"Jacket Copy for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e,\" \"Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,\" and \"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tm-subtitle-text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Visions Comics and Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45047625711781,"sku":"9780679602989","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/0814\/0453\/files\/9780679602989.jpg?v=1742408991","url":"https:\/\/visionsgaming.com\/products\/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas-and-other-american-stories","provider":"Visions Comics and Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}