fear and loathing in america by hunter s thompson

Sandy left Hunter in 1980, after 17 years of marriage. She was the one typing the manuscripts, filing, and doing all the administrative work, and she was also the recipient of Hunter’s abusive behavior and unrelenting late-night irritability.

Sandy was not only his wife but also his full-time assistant. As Wenner, Hunter’s editor at Rolling Stone, says in Gonzo: These articles for Rolling Stone would eventually be compiled into the lauded Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 (“The best account yet published of what it feels like to be out there in the middle of the American political process,” according to The New York Times Book Review), but the experience also put inhuman strain on Sandy. In order for Hunter to cover the presidential campaign in 1972, the family, which now included their eight-year-old son Juan, moved from their home in Woody Creek to DC. Sandy did eventually visit, and three years later, the couple wed. I am still honest enough to say I want you to come down and, if you do nothing else, merely lie naked with me on this living room bed and stare at the sea… I am also honest enough to admit that wanting you over this past weekend rubbed raw some part of me that’s been well-insulated for quite a while. Absolutely gone.” In a letter from The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, a collection of Hunter’s correspondence, he pleads with her to visit him in Puerto Rico, where he had moved in 1960. Wenner and Corey Seymour, Sandy declares, “The only way to say it is that I was just gone. Reflecting on first falling for Hunter in Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S.

The two met through mutual friends in New York City in 1958. Sandy Thompson (nee Conklin now Sondi Wright) was Hunter’s first wife. – Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 “To Sandy, who endured almost a year of grim exile in Washington, DC while this book was being written.”

Fear and loathing in america by hunter s thompson