Including a chronicle of his first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confront
ation and ending with an unnaturally poignant love story, "Screwjack" is an exhi
larating collection of short stories. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, t
he three stories here 'build like Bolero to a faster & wilder climax that will d
rag the reader relentlessly up a hill, & then drop him off a cliff...That is the
Desired Effect'. Amid all the hilarity, Hunter S.
