num_pages: 224
description: Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible.
language: English
title: The Rum Diary
titlecomplete: The Rum Diary
characters: Paul Kemp
genres: American, Novels, Travel, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Contemporary, Journalism
ratings_count: 59692
places: Puerto Rico
publisher: Scribner / Simon & Schuster