num_pages: 205
description: The irreverent journalist-author's long-lost novel, written before his nonfiction became popular, chronicles a journalist's enthusiastic, drunken foray though 1950s San Juan, in a work that offers glimpses of the literary talent that would emerge from the chaos. 150,000 first printing. Tour.
language: English
title: The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel
titlecomplete: The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel
characters: Paul Kemp
genres: Fiction, Classics, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Journalism, American, Travel, Literature, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 59693
places: Puerto Rico
publisher: Simon & Schuster