Here I was, living in a luxury hotel, racing around a half-Latin city in a toy car that looked like a cockroachĪnd sounded like a jet fighter, sneaking down alleys and. It was amusing and vaguely depressing at the same time. ''There was a strange and unreal air about the whole world I'd come into. The other.'' Part of his problem is San Juan itself, which yanqui carpetbaggers have now discovered and which Thompson evokes with some flair: At 30, he finds himself caught between ''a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on First they'll get this one, then they'll get a few more, and one day they'll get Theįor someone who gets to drink rum all day and have sex on the beach (the real thing, not the cocktail) all night, Kemp is pretty morose. '' 'We have a responsibility! A free press is vital! If a pack of deadbeats get hold of this newspaper it's the beginning of the end. ''You're damn tootin' '' and at other times sounds as if he were auditioning for ''The McLaughlin Group'': Who ''ran the whole gamut from genuine talents and honest men to degenerates and hopeless losers who could barely write a postcard.'' The editor is an ex-Communist from Florida named Lotterman, who says things like The fictional paper is known for its colorful journalists, His narrator, Paul Kemp, leaves New York and the White Horse Tavern behind for a job with The San Juan Daily News, an English-language publication modeled on one that Thompson himself worked for.
Duke was only 22 years old, but doesn't say when Thompson put the finishing touches on this piece of juvenilia (perhaps last month?).
The publisher says the novel, which is set mainly in Puerto Rico in the late 1950's,
Work, and there is also none of the maniacal wit and deranged exuberance that roared through the ''Fear and Loathing'' books. Thompson, if we can go by his first novel, ''The Rum Diary.'' There are no narcotics in this early Rugs must have done wonders for Hunter S. Set in the Caribbean, this first novel by a 22-year-old Hunter Thompson has lots of sex and alcohol but no drugs yet.
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