And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks -

William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

Penguin UK

2009

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-13: 9780141189673

With an Afterword by
James Grauerholz

'The novel that kicked it all off'
Independent

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 Unpublished for years, And the Hippos . . . is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers.

'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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Format: Paperback.

Resenhas (1)

4 (Muito bom)

É difícil avaliar um livro que os autores escreveram sobre um crime que “presenciaram”. Gosto muito da escrita do William, mas foi a primeira vez que li algo do Jack. Muito interessante também a história do livro e de como ele demorou pra ser publicado, justamente porque o Lucien pediu pra não ser. Muita coisa foi mudada, e eu fiquei pensando também sobre o motivo de Jack e William não terem incluído o Allen na história.