Since then, we’ve had two film adaptations, including an indelible interpretation by Johnny Depp and Terry Gilliam. Thompson’s seminal work came complete with illustrations by British artist Ralph Steadman, whose monstrous caricatures, spattered with psychedelic splotches of ink, added a surreal element to the book. It’s been 45 years since Raoul Duke travelled across America with his attorney to cover a Las Vegas motorcycle race, only to lose himself in a drug-crazed miasma of trashed hotel rooms and a savage journey into the heart of the American Dream.
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