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Hell's Angels
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Hell’s Angels

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Hell’s Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of Gonzo journalism, and made Thompson’s name as the wild man of American writing.

From the father of ‘gonzo journalism’, Hunter S. Thompson’s research for Hell’s Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resulting in a masterpiece of underground reportage published in Penguin Modern Classics.

‘A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west … the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn’t quite handle what I was seeing.’

Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell’s Angels could paralyse whole towns with fear. But how much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality? Only one man could discover the truth about these latter-day barbarians; Hunter S. Thompson, Dr Gonzo himself, the man who saw the fear and loathing at the heart of the American dream. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Big Frank, Little Jesus and the Gimp. Hell’s Angels is the hair-raising result- a free-wheeling, impressionistic counter-culture classic that made Hunter S. Thompson’s name as the wild man of American writing.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 July 2003
Pages
288
ISBN
9780141187457

Hell’s Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of Gonzo journalism, and made Thompson’s name as the wild man of American writing.

From the father of ‘gonzo journalism’, Hunter S. Thompson’s research for Hell’s Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resulting in a masterpiece of underground reportage published in Penguin Modern Classics.

‘A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west … the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn’t quite handle what I was seeing.’

Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell’s Angels could paralyse whole towns with fear. But how much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality? Only one man could discover the truth about these latter-day barbarians; Hunter S. Thompson, Dr Gonzo himself, the man who saw the fear and loathing at the heart of the American dream. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Big Frank, Little Jesus and the Gimp. Hell’s Angels is the hair-raising result- a free-wheeling, impressionistic counter-culture classic that made Hunter S. Thompson’s name as the wild man of American writing.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 July 2003
Pages
288
ISBN
9780141187457