The Rum Diary: A Novel - Hunter S. Thompson

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Literature Novel America
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Read by Christopher Lane
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 6 hours and 24 minutes

Begun in 1959 by a 22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, this dazzling comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson’s Fear and Loathing books.