by Hunter S. Thompson · Transworld Pub · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552996389
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«Better Than Sex» is Hunter S. Thompson's political chronicle, published by Transworld Pub in paperback (272 pages, in English).
The author delves into a US presidential campaign that ends in victory and follows campaign junkies living the process behind the scenes. He describes their orgies, their desperation and their terror as the forces of darkness settle into the White House, in the gonzo style that mixes journalism, acid humor and a critique of power.
The work's full subtitle is 'Confessions of a Political Junkie, Trapped Like a Rat in Mr Bill's Neighbourhood'. The 'New Ed' edition was published in December 2000.
For readers of gonzo journalism and political chronicles seeking an irreverent look at US politics.
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. He rose to prominence with the book Hell's Angels (1967), for which he lived a year among the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional article titled "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" for Scanlan's Monthly, which further raised his profile as a countercultural figure. It also set him on the path to establish the subgenre of New Journalism that he called "Gonzo", a style in which the writer becomes central to, and participant in the narrative.
