
THE RUM DIARY. By Hunter S. Thompson *Excellent Condition*
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THE RUM DIARY. By Hunter S. Thompson *Excellent Condition*
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Très bon état
- Commentaires du vendeur
- ISBN-10
- 0684852241
- Publication Name
- SIMON & SCHUSTER. NY 1998
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780684852249
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0684852241
ISBN-13
9780684852249
eBay Product ID (ePID)
122240274
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rum Diary : a Novel
Language
English
Topic
Action & Adventure
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Item Length
7.1 in
Item Width
4.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson. It was his first novel, and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary would "in a twisted way...do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises did for Paris." 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. "I shared a dark suspicion," Kemp says, "that the life we were leading was a lost cause, we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles -- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other -- that kept me going." 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. "It was a gold rush," says the author. "There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit." 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. Paul Kemp, The Rum Diary's narrator, speaks for the unfocused angst of those times: "In a sense I was one of them -- more competent than some and more stable than others -- and in the years that carried that ragged banner I was seldom unemployed. Sometimes I worked for three newspapers at once. I wrote ad copy for new casinos and bowling alleys, I was a consultant for the cockfighting syndicate, an utterly corrupt high-end restaurant critic, a yachting photographer and a routine victim of police brutality. It was a greedy life and I was good at it. I made some interesting friends, had enough money to get around, and learned a lot about the world that I could never have learned in any other way."
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