Screwjack av Hunter S. Thompson, Lars Ulrich

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<B>A rare collection of wild and outlandish short stories—long thought to be lost—by literary legend Hunter S. Thompson.</B><BR><BR>Hunter S. Thompson’s notorious triptych <I>Screwjack</I> is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since its private printing in 1991.<BR><BR>“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. 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 as only Hunter S. Thompson could see it. <I>Screwjack</I> just gets weirder with its second offering, &