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The Rum Diary
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 DescriptionBased 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. ReviewsWilliam 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. |
