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Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. 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.
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The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson
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- Released
- 1998
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- Title
- The Rum Diary
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0684856476
- ISBN13
- 9780684856476
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Humor, Thriller, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Adventure Fiction, American Literature, Journalism, Psychological Thrillers, Adapted for Film, Alcohol, 1950s, Alcoholism, Caribbean
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- The Rum Diary
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. 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.