A compilation of quintessentially outrageous and extravagant Thompson tales, this small volume makes for an amazing read.
As he puts it in his introduction, the three stories here build like Bolero to a faster and wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, and then drop him off a cliff...
That is the desired effect..
Screwjack shows how brilliant a prose stylist Thompson really is, amid all the hilarity.
What makes the romantic tale Screwjack so touching, for all its strangeness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man\'s burden.
The heart of the collection lies in its final, title piece, an unnaturally poignant love Story ostensibly written by Thompson\'s alias Raoul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .
Screwjack just gets weirder with its second offering, Death of a Poet, which describes a trailer park confrontation with a deservingly doomed friend.
Thompson could see it.
The result is a poetic, perceptive, and wildly funny stream-of-consciousness take on 1969 America as only Hunter S.
But for Thompson, along with the downside came a burst of creativity too powerful to ignore.
We live in a jungle of pending disasters, Thompson warns in the opening piece Mescalito, a fictionalized chronicle of his first mescaline experience and what it sparked in him while he was alone in an Los Angeles hotel room in February 1969---including a bout of paranoia that would have made most people just scream no, once and for all.
Thompson\'s notorious triptych Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since its private printing in 1991.
Hunter S.
Thompson.
A rare collection of wild and outlandish Short stories--long thought to be lost--by literary legend Hunter S.
Full color.
Includes Mesolito, Death of a Poet, and Screwjack.
A compilation of quintessentially outrageous and extravagant Thompson tales, this small volume makes for an amazing read
