Description
| Product ID: | 9780330510769 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Screwjack |
| Authors: | Author: Hunter Thompson |
| Page Count: | 64 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A perceptive and wildly funny short story collection from the father of gonzo <p>Including a chronicle of his first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confrontation and ending with an unnaturally poignant love story, <i>Screwjack</i> is an exhilarating collection of short stories. 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.’<br><br> Amid all the hilarity, Hunter S. Thompson proves just how brilliant a prose stylist he really is. <i>Screwjack</i> is salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical.<br><br> ‘Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria’s funeral’ William F Buckley<br><br> ‘There are only two adjectives writers care about anymore, <i>brilliant</i> and <i>outrageous</i>, and Hunter S. Thompson has a freehold on both of them’ Tom Wolfe</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-05-07 |
