description: 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 Juan, 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 bestselling Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell's Angels.
title: The Rum Diary
titlecomplete: The Rum Diary
characters: Paul Kemp
genres: Fiction, American, Adventure, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Travel, Adult Fiction, Journalism
ratings_count: 59721
places: Puerto Rico
publisher: Simon & Schuster