Stories I Tell Myself

Resumen del libro

A fresh and moving glimpse of Hunter S. Thompson, the countercultural icon and enfant terrible of American journalism, in a rarely seen role: as an unpredictable, messy, imperfect father.

Patron saint of gonzo journalism, wild man, psychedelic, troublemaker, truth-teller, iconoclast, raconteur. The legendary Hunter S. Thompson was all of the above. But behind his mythic persona lies a lesser-told story: that of a demanding husband and father with a hair-trigger temper whose scathing wit could cut as deeply at home as on the page. In this intimate, surprising memoir, Juan F. Thompson, Hunter's only son, tells of a coming-of-age that was at once singular with nights spent crawling under barstools while his father held court at the Hotel Jerome, and days spent sailing with Jimmy Buffett while his parents' marriage fell apart and deeply familiar, as father and son struggled to forge a connection under the crushing weight of expectation.

From sleeping through Hells Angels parties and riding on the back of Hunter's Bultaco Matador as a small boy, to wrestling with Hunter's fits of rage and competing with countless others for his attention, to watching Hunter become a doting grandfather and dealing with his decline after decades of substance abuse, Juan offers a son's tale of the astonishing and poignant arc from darkness to reconciliation. Stories I Tell Myself is an unprecedented view of a passionate, complex, indelible man.