![]() ![]() ![]() "I shared a dark suspicion," Kemp says, "that the life we were leading was a lost cause, 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 then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Minor wear to the book and DJ with a small stain to the top edge. ![]() Tight and clean, the DJ is unclipped, true first edition with the full and correct number string on the copyright page. ![]()
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