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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 It is Thompson's second novel, preceded by the still-unpublished Prince Jellyfish .
- Hunter S. Thompson
- 1998
Oct 28, 2011 · The Rum Diary: Directed by Bruce Robinson. With Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard. American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Bruce Robinson
- 2011-10-28
Jan 1, 2001 · 3.84. 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 ...
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- Paperback
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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
Paul Kemp is an author who has not been able to sell a book. He gets a job at a newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico . There, he meets staff photographer Sala, who gets him acclimated and tells him he thinks the newspaper will fold soon.
Oct 28, 2011 · Synopsis As the Eisenhower era draws to a close, journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) decides he's had enough of New York and takes a job in Puerto Rico. There, he becomes obsessed with Chenault...
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