The Rum Diary
Language: English
Action & Adventure Addiction Adventure stories Alcoholism Classics Fiction Fiction - General General General & Literary Fiction Journalists Journalists - Puerto Rico - San Juan Literary Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Modern fiction Psychology Psychopathology San Juan (P.R.)
Publisher: Scribner / Simon & Schuster
Published: Jan 2, 1998
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.