The rum diary
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Series: Bloomsbury classic reads; Bloomsbury classic reads
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781408814673
Subjects: Fiction; Alcoholism; Journalists
Description: Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day is reaching a violent breaking point.
Notes: Film tie-in.

Originally published: New York; London: Simon & Schuster; 1998.