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The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson. 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. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is ...
- Hunter S. Thompson
- 1998
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 Daily ...
- Pete L'official
Jan 1, 2001 · 61,423 ratings2,553 reviews. 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 ...
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Jun 6, 2007 · Hunter S. Thompson was 22 when he began work on The Rum Diary, a novel based on his own experiences working as a journalist in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1959. Not published for another 30 years, the book chronicles the turbulent, alcohol-imbued times of Paul Kemp, a young American journalist working for a floundering English newspaper in San Juan.
Oct 27, 2011 · “The Rum Diary,” based on an early novel by Hunter S. Thompson, stars Johnny Depp as a young writer named Paul Kemp, a Thompson alter ego.
- Bruce Robinson
Jan 1, 2004 · The Rum Diary. Paperback – January 1, 2004. by Hunter S Thompson (Author) 2,813. See all formats and editions. Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the ...
- Hunter S Thompson
The Rum Diary came from those six months in Puerto Rico in 1960, and is the basis of an elegiac new film starring Johnny Depp. What Thompson called his “proud highway” is littered with the ...
