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Thompson again proves himself a great American writer … The Proud Highway is something of an adventure story, the tale of a man who insisted, in the early ’60s, that it was still feasible to drink unto blindness, jump smugglers’ boats and, indeed, move from ‘home’ to ‘home’ with the frequency of a Mayflower truck.” His letters make clear that he doesn’t lie-he simply tells outsized truths that most people are so used to screening out that we have to laugh or shrug them off as exaggeration.” “SCATHING, OBSCENE, INSIGHTFUL AND PRETTY DARNED FUNNY”

“Astonishing … We get overdosed with surprises.” “Some of the finest political and social writing of our times.” You’ve never gotten any letters like these-unless you’re Abelard and Heloise, in which case you’re castrated and dead.” “HST takes the air out of airmail and replaces it with pure, compressed, explosive hydrogen (plus laughing gas). Read these letters, but do not, under any circumstances, give this man your number.” “Another insightful masterpiece from the finest southern gentleman since Colonel Harland Sanders. “A careening, chaotic, rollercoaster ride through time Crackling electrical charged fused from the Fires of Hell Direction Purpose Energy.” Thompson was burning with a lovely light that seared these letters with wit, wonder, and insight These letters could serve as mileposts along the way of where we’ve been and where we are” “ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN WRITERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY,īoth for his vibrant prose style and his career-long autopsy on the death of the American dream.”

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