The Rum Diary

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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 1008 "Enough booze to float a yacht and enough fear and loathing to sink it." -New York Daily News Begun in 1959 by a then-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 Jüan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, The Rum Diary is an outrageous, drunken romp in the spirit of Thompson's bestseiling Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell's Angels. "A great and an unexpected joy . . . reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a morálist, Puritán, even an innocent. The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology . . . with a kind of pride." -The Washington Post Book World "A remarkably full and mature first növel ... a languid and lovingly executed... Tovább

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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 1008 "Enough booze to float a yacht and enough fear and loathing to sink it." -New York Daily News Begun in 1959 by a then-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 Jüan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, The Rum Diary is an outrageous, drunken romp in the spirit of Thompson's bestseiling Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell's Angels. "A great and an unexpected joy . . . reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a morálist, Puritán, even an innocent. The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology . . . with a kind of pride." -The Washington Post Book World "A remarkably full and mature first növel ... a languid and lovingly executed book that reveals its emotional depths slowly." -Sálon "Throughout The Rum Diary; Thompson flashes signs of the vitriol that would later be turnéd loose on society." -USA Today Hunter S. Thompson was born and raísed in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Traii '72, The Curse of Lono, Songs of the Doomed, Better Than Sex, and The Proud Highway. He is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and other national and international publications. Vissza