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This is a brilliant tribal study and a bone in the throat of all decent people." -Jimmy Buffett Product Details But it is a world that Hunter Thompson knows in the nerves of his neck. "The Run Diary shows a side of human nature that is ugly and wrong. There, too were the beginnings of his future as a masterful prose stylist." -William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed Thompson would use in the years ahead-bizarre wit, mockery without end, redundant excess, supreme self-confidence, the narrative of the wounded meritorious ego, and the idiopathic anger of the righteous outlaw-were all there in his precocious imagination in San Juan. “Thompson flashes signs of the vitriol that would later be turned loose on society.” - USA Today a languid and lovingly executed book that reveals its emotional depths slowly." - Salon "A remarkably full and mature first novel. with a kind of pride." - The Washington Post Book World The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology. “At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, Puritan, even an innocent. Reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer “Enough booze to float a yacht and enough fear and loathing to sink it.” - New York Daily News A shot of Gonzo with a rum chaser.” - San Francisco Chronicle Signed by Author(s).“Crackling, twisted, searing, paced to a deft prose rhythm. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).

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