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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Af: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs Engelsk Paperback

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Af: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs Engelsk Paperback
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In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth century''s most influential writers, Beat Generation icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac''s And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an electrifying true-life mystery, including afterword by James Grauerholtz in Penguin Modern Classics.

This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the police. Later they wrote this fictionalised account of that summer - of a group of friends in wartime New York, moving through each other''s apartments, drinking, necking, talking and taking drugs and haphazardly drifting towards a bloody crime. Unpublished for years, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers.

If you enjoyed And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, you might like Kerouac''s On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

''The novel that kicked it all off''
Independent

''An insight into Kerouac before he went on the road and Burroughs before his drug use spiralled out of control, this is a major literary event''
GQ

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In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth century''s most influential writers, Beat Generation icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac''s And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an electrifying true-life mystery, including afterword by James Grauerholtz in Penguin Modern Classics.

This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the police. Later they wrote this fictionalised account of that summer - of a group of friends in wartime New York, moving through each other''s apartments, drinking, necking, talking and taking drugs and haphazardly drifting towards a bloody crime. Unpublished for years, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers.

If you enjoyed And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, you might like Kerouac''s On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

''The novel that kicked it all off''
Independent

''An insight into Kerouac before he went on the road and Burroughs before his drug use spiralled out of control, this is a major literary event''
GQ

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780141189673
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0141189673
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 6 aug 2009
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 6 aug 2009
Forfatter(e) Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs


Kategori Forside


ISBN-13 9780141189673


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 224


Udgave


Længde 14mm


Bredde 129mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 6 aug 2009


Oplagsdato 6 aug 2009


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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