Stories I Tell Myself

✍ Scribed by Juan F. Thompson

• Book ID: 100252139
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1101875860

✦ Synopsis

An intimate, close-up portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, fearless outlaw journalist, "avenging proxy for the American polity," whose manic first-person articles and expos es, 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.

Hunter S. Thompson, "smart hillbilly," boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, public school-educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, and, in exchange for a reduced sentence, U.S. Air Force, Airmen Second Class, and radio technician trainee, later copy...