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The Joke's Over

Memories of Hunter S. Thompson

By: Ralph Steadman

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Paperback | 3 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Ralph Steadman's hilarious and revealing story of his bizarre and crazy relationship with Hunter Thompson.

In the spring of 1970, Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. In Kentucky to cover the Derby, he met a former Hells Angel called Hunter S. Thompson. Their meeting resulted in a working relationship and a friendship that lasted for more than thirty years and spanned the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement, Nixon and Watergate, and the decay of the American Dream.

Few people knew Thompson as well as Ralph Steadman did. In this unique memoir Steadman tells his story for the first time, the story - in words and pictures - of Ralph and Hunter, a great British original on a great American original, Butch and Sundance on acid...

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Praise for The Joke's Over:
His drawings are the perfect foil for the deranged clarity of Thompson's writings. The Joke's Over, Steadman's memoir of working with Thompson, is full of entertaining anecdotes

* Financial Times *
Indispensible * GQ *
His book is funny, interesting, sad in parts and a valuable insight into the counterculture era of tune in, turn on and drop out. Maybe his weird drawings will outlast Thompson's overwrought prose. * Daily Mail *
Hilarious * TLS *
Fascinating... full of sad charm, and not too full of Hunter - just full enough... This memoir has undeniable depth, thanks to Steadman's willingness to not merely record his life-threatening relationship with Thompson, but to do a bit of collateral detective work of his own * Guardian *

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List of Plates	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The Seventies	p. 5
The Kentucky Derby. May 1970	p. 6
The America’s Cup. September 1970	p. 35
Fear and Loathing. Summer 1971	p. 66
Hunter Goes to Washington. 1970–72	p. 78
Watergate Follies. July 1973	p. 92
Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v Foreman. 30 October 1974	p. 115
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood. 1977	p. 137
The Filming ofWhere the Buffalo Roam. 1979	p. 167
The Eighties 183 ‘The eighties, Ralph, are about paying your rent.’ 1980	p. 184
Hawaii. 1980	p. 195
The Elusive Bloater. 1981	p. 206
Taxi to the Suburbs. 1981	p. 237
The fish have gone south. 1981–6	p. 245
The Year of Wine. 1987	p. 271
The Nineties	p. 275
Own goals. 1990–94	p. 276
William Burroughs – An Encounter. 1995	p. 325
Rifle. March 1996	p. 338
Visit to Virginia, Hunter’s Mother. Louisville, 1997	p. 344
The End	p. 349
The Red Shark. 2000	p. 350
ReadingLonoOut Loud. 2000	p. 359
The Last Trip to Woody Creek. 2004	p. 366
Memo to the Sports Desk. 2006	p. 383
Index	p. 388
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