Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1998 • Vintage Books orwellian very bad year—a difficult yet

very bad year—a difficult yet astonishing period in which tragedy turned into absurdity and despair into joy

an abortive affair on the West African coastline

and "the gang" split up

*Dated by org

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1998 • Vintage Books orwellian very bad year—a difficult yetFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson and illustrated by Ralph Steadman TRADE PAPERBACK [1998] VINTAGE BOOKS *Note two pages end book have some staining to margins [see last photo]. Otherwise book is like new. 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 Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway