Hunter S. Thompson's assistant recounts his debauchery and hedonism in Gonzo Girl - A.V. Club Austin
There are different types of Hunter S. Thompson fans. There are those who have read (and watched) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas dozens of times. There’s the types who have read Thompson’s most prolific pieces: the aforementioned Fear And Loathing , Hell’s Angels , The Rum Diary , The Great Shark Hunt. Then there’s the hardcore fans, who have read every deep cut, post on the forums , and are already planning their pilgrimage to the rumored Hunter S. Thompson museum at his ranch in Woody Creek, Colorado. This debut novel is based on writer and editor Cheryl Della Pietra’s experience working as Thompson’s editorial assistant in 1992. It’s a light-hearted page-turner that has the reader constantly trying to differentiate between fact and fiction. The short novel opens with recent Ivy League grad Alley Russo auditioning for a gig as an assistant to Walker Reade, the fictionalized version of Thompson. She packs up and moves to Woody Creek to live on Reade’s bucolic property with his two other employees, his long-time personal assistant Claudia, who’s based on Thompson’s real-life assistant Deborah Fuller, and his flavor-of-the-week full-time... Alley’s end goal is to get her manuscript published, an Ivy League tell-all that’s a veiled account of Della Pietra’s time at Penn University. Source: www.avclub.com
