![]() Review Quotes 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 Thompsons 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. Thompsons brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean. Book 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 Thompsons 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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