![]() ![]() Journalists - Puerto Rico - San Juan - Fiction. Puerto Rico was an unspoiled tropical paradise in those years - before Castro, before JFK, before civil rights & moonwalks & flower power & Vietnam & protests & even before drugs - but, the San Juan Daily News was a vortex & a snakepit of all the corrupt new schemes & plots & greedmongers who swarmed in. The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery & violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. An autobiographical novel, Thompson follows young journalists around Puerto Rico, without a care in the world besides drinking rum all day and finding girls on. In Paul Kemp, the novel's hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the "ill-tempered wandering rabble" on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time. The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. ![]() The rum diary : the long lost novel / Hunter S. ![]()
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