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Author
Series
Fear and loathing letters volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This first volume of the Fear and Loathing Letters begins with a high school essay written in 1955 - when Hunter S. Thompson was a wise (perhaps too wise) teenager in Louisville - and takes us through 1967, when the publication of Hell's Angels made the author an international celebrity (and nearly resulted in his death). In the intervening years, Thompson's prolific and often profound correspondence gives us an unforgettable vista of the America...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of -- so she chose it. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Radical Hope is a collection of letters-to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged-written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
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