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

"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 ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Juan F.
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Edition:First United States edition.
Subjects:
Thompson, Hunter S.
Thompson, Hunter S. > Family.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Thompson, Juan F.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.