April 12, 2024
SCREWJACK by Hunter S. Thompson - First Printing - Signed
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SCREWJACK by Hunter S. Thompson Signed by Author Simon & Schuster, New York - 2000 First Printing From the inside flap: “... [Thompson’s] 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 impending 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. Screwjack just gets weirder with its second offering, ' Death of a Poet' . As Thompson describes the trailer-park confrontation with the dark side of a deservedly doomed friend: ‘Whoops, I thought. Welcome to the night train.’ The title and admirably ballsy piece,
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