Hunter Thompson The Rum Diary

Thompson, Hunter S. The Rum Diary. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1998.
Hardback with D/J in good condition, tiny curling to edges of D/J. 1998 1st edition Bloomsbury. Amazon - "Disgusting as he usually was," Hunter Thompson writes in this, hi s 1959 novel, "on rare occasions he showed flashes of a stagnant intelligen ce. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenev er he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire fr om being dipped in lard." Surprise! Thompson isn't writing about himself, b ut one of the other, older, aimlessly carousing newspapermen in Puerto Rico , a guy called Moberg whose chief achievement is the ability to find his ca r after a night's drinking because it stinks so much. (I can smell it for b locks, he boasts.) The autobiographical hero, Paul Kemp, is 30, trapped in a dead-end job (Thompson wound up writing for a bowling magazine) and feeli ng as if his big-time writer dreams, soaked in F. Scott-Fitzgerald and Erne st Hemingway, are evaporating as rapidly as the rum in his fist. In fact, Thompson was only 22 when he wrote The Rum Diary, but his fear of winding up like Moberg was well founded. What saved him was the fantastic c onflagration of the 1960s, a fiery wind on which the reptilian wings of his prose style could catch and soar to the cackling heights of Fear and Loath ing in Las Vegas. Puerto Rico in 1959 doesn't have bad craziness enough to offer Thompson just a routine drunken reporter stomping by local cops and a riot over Kemp's friend's temptress girlfriend, a scantily imagined Smith College alumna who likes to strip nude on beaches and in nightclubs to taun t men. Thompson's prose style only intermittently takes tentat. Fiction.

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Thompson, Hunter S. Rum Diary: The Long-lost Novel, London, United Kingdom Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1998

Softcover Very Good First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 074754168x Paperback Uncorrected Proof Copy The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, trechery and violent alchoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto rico, in the late 1950s. The Rum Diary was written in 1959 by a then twenty-two-year old Hunter S. Thompson and it was his first novel. Octavo. Hardback. 204 pages.slight shelfwear.

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Hunter S. Thompson: The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel, Simon & Schuster ; fester Einband / hard cover ISBN: 0684855216

Hardcover Fine 0684855216 THIS IS A HARDCOVER BOOK IN DUST JACKET. THE BOOK AND DUST JACKET ARE IN FINE/FINE CONDITION, LIKE NEW, NO DEFECTS INSIDE OR OUT.

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THOMPSON, Hunter S.. Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel.. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
Thompson's novel, written in 1959, published now for the first time. Advance reader's excerpt (paperback). Fine in glossy pictorial wraps.; 47 pages.

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