The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1980 • Popular Library *See Condition

The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson [THE GONZO PAPERS: VOLUME I]

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1980] FAWCETT • POPULAR LIBRARY

3rd mass market paperback printing / 1980.

Vintage paperback in good reading condition with *flaws:

Tight, seemingly unread copy with *damp stain across bottoms of cover near spine.  Spot of color drain to underside of text block. 

Interior is pristine and unaffected.  Pages look and read like new.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style.

Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. Thompson piece to be dubbed “gonzo”—“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful ‘60s and ‘70s.