![]() American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance. With Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard. In The Rum Diary, Thompson or, more specifically, his fictional alter ego Paul Kemp relocates to Puerto Rico for work at a nearly-bankrupt newspaper and has to outrun the local authorities. ![]() "There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit. The Rum Diary: Directed by Bruce Robinson. ![]() The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery & violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jea Author / Uploaded Thompson Hunter S. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going." Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. "I share a dark suspicion," Kemp says, "that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was his first novel and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary would "in a twisted way.do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises did for Paris." In Paul Kemp, the novel's hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the "ill-tempered wandering rabble" on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time. ![]() The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. ![]()
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