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A journalist and his attorney tear through Las Vegas in a drug-fuelled search for the American Dream at the death of the 1960s.
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Thompson follows the 1972 presidential campaign as a participant, a journalist, and a chemical experiment, producing the most savagely funny political reporting ever written.
Inherent Vice
A pot-smoking private investigator in 1970 Los Angeles searches for his ex-girlfriend and stumbles into a conspiracy involving real estate developers, heroin smugglers, and the death of the 1960s.
Dr. No
A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.
Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson spends a year riding with the Hell's Angels and finds that the outlaw myth hides a real capacity for violence, in the book that made his name.
Bunny
A lonely MFA student at an elite New England university is pulled into a clique of rich, saccharine girls who host strange rituals.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
The Sellout
A Black farmer in Dickens, a Los Angeles neighbourhood that has been quietly wiped off the map, sets out to put it back, by reinstating slavery and segregating the local school.
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
A broke rideshare driver agrees to drive a woman and a mysterious box across the country to Washington, D.C., and the trip turns into an internet obsession as strangers online decide what is inside and whether to stop them.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A woman with abnormally large thumbs hitchhikes from Virginia to the Dakotas on a quest involving cowgirls, whooping cranes, and the meaning of freedom.
Vernon God Little
After a shooting at his Texas high school, fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, whose only friend was the killer, finds himself the town's scapegoat.
Dog Soldiers
John Converse, a writer in Saigon, arranges to smuggle three kilos of heroin to California, and the man he sends with it, Ray Hicks, finds that someone is waiting for him.
All's Well
A chronically ill college theatre director stakes her recovery on a cursed production of All's Well That Ends Well.