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Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson / Juan F. Thompson.

by Thompson, Juan F.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Thompson, Hunter S.

Thompson, Hunter S. -- Family.

Thompson, Juan F.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

9780307265357 (hardback) :

0307265358 (hardback)

xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

First United States edition.

My father as a young man. "Nothing hut a smart hillbilly" ; The Air Force or jail ; The writing life: New York, San Francisco, Big Sur, Aspen ; Partying with Ken Kesey and the Hells Angels motorcycle gang ; Elk liver in an unheated shack -- Memories begin: ages 2 to 10. Owl Farm ; The Success of Hell's Angels ; Early working habits ; Guns, motorcycles, friends in the kitchen ; The Jerome Bar ; Washington, D.C, the Free School -- Awakening: ages 10 to 13. A young horseman and his lamb ; Building fires, hauling firewood ; Trouble with guns ; I was a teenage hit man ; The Beating ; My fear, bitterness, and shame -- The breakup. "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" ; Broken glass in the morning ; Victim, witness, judge ; In the Bahamas with Buffett ; Califonia, the Promised Land ; Police in the night ; Leaving for the last time -- The in-between time: ages 13 to 18. The ugly divorce ; Drugs and vandalism ; Andover; Concord, the call of the East ; Movie night with Dad ; Cleaning the guns ; Hawaii -- Independence: ages 18 to 24. Tufts ; The cub reporter ; Priorities ; Rolling Stone ; Al-Anon in earnest ; The letters ; A year abroad ; The correspondent's coat ; Graduation with honors -- Getting straight: ages 24 to 30. The ashram ; Jennifer ; The burning of the ham ; The Bomb ; The wedding ; "I never liked yon anyway" -- Reconciliation: ages 30 to 41. The hidden language ; Better Than Sex ; The letters books ; Still cleaning the guns ; Building the fire ; "Ace" and the birth of a grandson ; Celebrated in Louisville ; The titanium spine -- The last day -- The funeral -- What changes, what remains the same. Lawyers, guns, and money ; Symposium ; Documentaries ; The medallion.

"An intimate, close-up portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, fearless outlaw journalist, "avenging proxy for the American polity," whose manic first-person articles and exposés so interwoven with the getting of the story, gave rise to gonzo journalism (gonzagas-"fooled you"; bizarre). A portrait of the man: writer, brother, husband, manic searching soul who grew up with the times he inhabited, and in part created; a portrait most of all of the father: the alcoholic, drug fueled, charismatic, irresponsible, idealistic, sensitive man, by the son who lived through it all and thrived to tell the dangerous, complex, loving tale"--

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