The Rum Diary

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Bloomsbury, 1999 - Всего страниц: 204
Before Hell's Angels amd Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sealed his position at the pinnacle of outlaw American journalism, Hunter S. Thompson wrote his first novel. It was 1959, he was twenty-two, and, as he explained at the time to his friend the author William Kennedy, The Rum Diary would 'in a twisted way do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway'sThe Sun Also Rises did for Paris'. But the bloody politics of the sixties changed everything. And Thompson reluctantly put The Rum Diary aside to pursue his political convictions through his groundbreaking 'gonzo journalism', which readers were clambouring for after his coverage of the Hell's Angels first appeared in The Nation. Up to that point, Thompson had been honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the 'ill-tempered wandering rabble' who staffed Puerto Rico's San Juan Daily News during the last strange gasp of the 1950s. Paul Kemp, the hero of The Rum Diary and its narrator, speaks for the unfocused angst of those times- 'In a sense I was one of them - more competent than some and more stable than others - and in the years that I carried that ragged banner I was seldom unemployed. Sometimes I worked for three newspapers at once. I wrote ad copy for new casinos and bowling alleys. I was a consultant for the cockfighting syndicate, an utterly corrupt high-end restaurant critic, a yachting photographer and a routine victim of police brutality. It was a greedy life and I was good at it. I made some interesting friends, had enough money to get around and learned a lot about the world that I could never have learned in any other way. At last, forty years later, here is The Rum Diary the long-lost novel by Hunter S. Thompson.

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Hunter S. Thompson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, The Curse of Lono, Songs of the Doomed, Better Than Sex and The Proud Highway He is a regular contributor to various US and International publications. He now lives in a fortified compound near Aspen, Colorado.

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