![]() ![]() Thompson himself travelled from New York to San Juan in 1960 to write for an ill-fated sports newspaper on the island of Puerto Rico. Set in the late 1950s, the novel encompasses a tangled love story involving jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust among the Americans who staff the newspaper. It is Thompson's second novel, preceded by the still-unpublished Prince Jellyfish. ![]() The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The manuscript, begun in 1959, was discovered among Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp. It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga ![]()
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