"A very unauthorized biography". Strange green cover with Hunter Thompson holding a cigarette. Red, white and yellow printing. Cover has some nicks and book has a slight warp from improper storage. Author deeply researched Thompsons life, and writes with insight about him and the whole 60's scene. 334 pp. Seller Inventory # 002341

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Title: When the Going Gets Weird; the Twisted Life ...

Publisher: Hyperion, New York

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Paperback

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A look at the life and lunacy of the well-known journalist traces the people and events that shaped Thompson's life, describing his troubled Kentucky childhood, his life in New York City in the 1950s, his encounters with Kesey and others, and his writing.

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Peter Owen Whitmer is a writer, clinical psychologist, and author of The Inner Elvis,a psychological biography of Elvis Aaron Presley; Aquarius Revisited, seven who created the sixties counterculture that changed America; The Unnatural, in The Best American Sports Writing: 1991, and numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

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