7/4/2023 0 Comments The rum diary author![]() ![]() "The Run Diary shows a side of human nature that is ugly and wrong. a languid and lovingly executed book that reveals its emotional depths slowly." - Salon "A remarkably full and mature first novel. ![]() Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, this dazzling comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson's Fear and Loathing books. ![]() The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule, and anything (including murder) is permissible. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson's brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean. Maps.īook Synopsis Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary-a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book-is Hunter S. About the Book Based on Thompson's own experiences as a reporter in Puerto Rico in the late '50s and early '60s, this "long-lost coming-of-age novel" ("San Francisco Chronicle") tells a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in a Caribbean boom town. ![]()
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