The Rum Diary

The Rum Diary, a novel by Hunter S. Thompson, written in 1959, but not published until 1998. The story is of a journalist called Paul Kemp, who moves from New York to work for a small newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Much rum involved.

Related Topics:
Hunter S. Thompson - 1959 - 1998 - New York - San Juan - Caribbean - Puerto Rico

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Begun in 1959 by a then-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.

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