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The Rum Diary Paperback - 1999

by Hunter S. Thompson; Sturgill Simpson

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Based on Thompson's 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. Maps.

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**National Bestseller
**New York Times Notable Book

"Nobody tells you that reading Hunter S. Thompson novels as a young adult male while serving in the military is a potentially very bad idea. Some things you simply must absorb and learn on your own." --Sturgill Simpson

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, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.

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. 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. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, this dazzling comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson's Fear and Loathing books.

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  • Title The Rum Diary
  • Author Hunter S. Thompson; Sturgill Simpson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Publication date 1999-11-01
  • Features Maps
  • ISBN 9780684856476 / 0684856476
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, San Juan (P.R.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011488556
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Entertainment Weekly, 11/12/1999, Page 73
  • New York Times, 12/26/1999, Page 20

About the author

Hunter S. Thompson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Screwjack, Kingdom of Fear, The Great Shark Hunt, Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone, Hell's Angels, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He died in February 2005.
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