''Polo Is My Life'' is an unpublished novel written by Hunter S. Thompson. It was briefly excerpted in ''

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'' in 1994, and which Thompson himself described in 1996 as "...a sex book — you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in

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". The novel was slated to be released by

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in 1999, and was even assigned , but was not published. A self-contained short story by that title was published in ''Rolling Stone,'' no. 697, 15 December, 1994, 44ff. An analysis of the story was published in ''Hunter S. Thompson: Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo,'' Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 by Kevin T. McEneaney, 225-231. Thompson recalled the origin of the title during the conclusion of an October 30, 1998 interview on '' Charlie Rose'': "I remember this woman... the title comes from... I was talking to this woman that I developed a correspondence for – a polo person – and, she had a violent husband, the cops were all over me... chasing me; I said, 'Let's go to Australia, go on a plane... across Australia', and she said, 'You don't understand. Polo is my life. I can't run away with you. Who would take care of my ponies?' That's where ''Polo Is My Life'' comes from".

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{{Hunter S. Thompson Novels by Hunter S. Thompson Unpublished novels