![]() ![]() ![]() Kemp breaks a confidentially agreement, causing the land developer to rescind his offer. ![]() The purchase, Kemp realizes, amounts to real estate fraud, and his conscience wrestles with the decision as he enjoys the ornaments of his potential business partner’s lavish lifestyle: cash, fast cars, and a beautiful woman. Only a few days in, he’s approached by a wealthy land developer, who wants him to write articles in favor of a planned acquisition. Kemp arrives in Puerto Rico to write for a failing newspaper, The San Juan Star, hoping to earn some money after writing two unpublished novels. But it’s also a valuable asset to its audience, particularly to writers, because it represents a cinematic expression of Thompson’s great insight: that finding one’s voice is a matter of identifying an antagonist, against which the writer deploys all his passions. The film adaptation was a poetic triumph for the late Thompson, who wrote the book as a struggling 22-year-old writer. ![]() But more than half a century after it was written, the novel was adapted into a film starring his long-time friend Johnny Depp, who portrayed its protagonist and Thompson’s literary alter-ego, Paul Kemp. Thompson’s second book, The Rum Diary, remained unpublished for most of his lifetime. ![]()
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