The Rum Diary
Author(s): Hunter S. Thompson
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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William KennedyPulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ironweed"The tools Hunter S. Thompson would use in the years ahead-bizarre wit, mockery without end, redundant excess, supreme self-confidence, the narrative of the wounded meritorious ego, and the idiopathic anger of the righteous outlaw -- were all there in his precocious imagination in San Juan. There, too were the beginnings of his future as a masterful prose stylist.
General Fields
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- : Simon & Schuster
- : Simon & Schuster
- : 0.249
- : 01 November 1999
- : 210mm X 133mm X 14mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hunter S. Thompson
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813.54
- : very good
- : 204
- : map