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The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson. [1][2] It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The manuscript, begun in 1959, was discovered among Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp. [3]
- Hunter S. Thompson
- 1998
Jan 1, 1998 · 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 ...
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Oct 27, 2011 · Billed as "the long lost novel" upon its release, The Rum Diary is narrated by a young journalist named Paul Kemp who leaves New York for Puerto Rico and a job with the fictional San Juan...
- Pete L'official
Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy,...
Nov 1, 1999 · Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. 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.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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- Simon & Schuster
The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson. It was his first novel, and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary...
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May 6, 2008 · Set in the 1950s, Hunter S. Thompson's second novel The Rum Diary chronicles the drunken misadventures of Paul Kemp, a journalist who moves from New York City to Puerto Rico to write for a small newspaper.
