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Cool, spare, comic and open-ended.
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- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Hunter S. Thompson
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 305
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Simon & Schuster, Summit Books
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780330510783
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