The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1992 • Ballantine

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time by Hunter S. Thompson [THE GONZO PAPERS: VOLUME I]

TRADE PAPERBACK [1992] BALLANTINE BOOKS

Vintage trade paperback in very good condition.

Some mild cover wear and tanning to pages.

Reads good as 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.