And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs

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Penguin
26 October 2009

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

First paperback publication of the legendary collaboration between William S. Borroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. Months later, the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated on And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a fictionalized account of the summer of the killing.

By: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 171g
ISBN: 9780141189673
ISBN 10: 0141189673
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 26 October 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William S. Burroughs was born in 1914. His first published novel was the largely autobiographical Junky, which remains a classic depiction of drug dependency. He died in 1997. Jack Kerouac was born in 1922. In 1947, he hitchhiked across America and wrote his most famous novel On the Road. He died in 1969.

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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs

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