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Screwjack, By Hunter Thompson. New Unread Hardcover. Nice.

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Special Attributes
1st Edition
ISBN
9780684873213
Book Title
Screwjack : a Short Story
Item Length
7in
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Year
2000
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.4in
Author
Hunter S. Thompson
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz
Number of Pages
64 Pages

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Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book. They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991 of three hundred fine collectors' copies and twenty-six leather-bound presentation copies. Only the first of the three pieces included here -- "Mescalito," published in Thompson's 1990 collection Songs of the Doomed -- has been available to the public, making the trade edition of Screwjack a major publishing event. "We live in a jungle of pending disasters," Thompson warns in "Mescalito," a chronicle of his first mescaline experience and what it sparked in him while he was alone in an L.A. hotel room in February 1969 -- including a bout of paranoia that would have made most people just scream no, once and for all. But for Thompson, along with the downside came a burst of creativity too powerful to ignore. The result is a poetic, perceptive, and wildly funny stream-of-consciousness take on 1969 America as only Hunter S. Thompson could see it. Screwjack just gets weirder with its second offering, "Death of a Poet." As Thompson describes this trailer-park confrontation with the dark side of a deservingly doomed friend: "Whoops, I thought. Welcome to the night train." The heart of the collection lies in its final, title piece, an unnaturally poignant love story. What makes the romantic tale "Screwjack" so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man's burden: that "we are doomed. Mama has gone off to Real Estate School ...and after that maybe even to Law School. We will never see her again." Ostensibly written by Raoul Duke, "Screwjack" begins with an editor's note explaining of Thompson's alter ego that "the first few lines contain no warning of the madness and fear and lust that came more and more to plague him and dominate his life...." "I am guilty, Lord," Thompson writes, "but I am also a lover -- and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have not been an embarrassment to you...." Nor has Hunter S. Thompson been to American literature. Quite the contrary: What the legendary Gonzo journalist proves with Screwjack is just how brilliant a prose stylist he really is, amid all the hilarity. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, the three stories here "build like Bolero to a faster & wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, & then drop him off a cliff....That is the Desired Effect."

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0684873214
ISBN-13
9780684873213
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1687423

Product Key Features

Book Title
Screwjack : a Short Story
Author
Hunter S. Thompson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
64 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3570.H62s37 2000
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
00-061251
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by chubbydan21
    10 Mar, 2021

    Great little read, wonderful addition the HST collection.

    It was a great short storywritten in his true Gonzo style. The vivid and descriptive imagery takes you on a strange trip.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: dreambooks_co

  • by ballfuddiesorus
    22 Jan, 2013

    awesome product! great value for the money! A+++

    great book. and hunter thompson fan will love these three short stories. must buy. its a nice short read. takes about a half hour total. so its a great starting book for people who havent read in a while

  • by 1DTnnfPaQB-@Deleted
    01 Mar, 2010

    Tiny!!

    It's tiny! But cute. Honestly, I have yet to read it, but I know itll be good- it's by the worlds best author: Hunter S. Thomspon. Can't be bad.

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