And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Audio Book MP3-CD Unabridged

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Authors: Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs
Reader: Ray Porter

The legendary unpublished collaboration between Kerouac and Burroughs, a hard-boiled crime novel about a murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation. In 1944, a mutual friend killed another and dropped the body into the Hudson River. The writers tell of bohemian New York during WWII, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence. "[Porter's] tone and attitude evoke a sense of grittiness inherent in the text... [His] convincing and consistent vocal characterizations keep the performance lively and engaging."—Publishers Weekly » Read More

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Publish Date: 11/11/2008
ISBN: 9781433249136

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A never-before-published fictional account of the 1944 murder of David Kammerer by Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, is written in the form of noir crime novel, with the two authors writing alternating voices from the perspectives of a bartender with ties to the criminal underworld and a hard-drinking merchant marine. Simultaneous.

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Born into a wealthy St. Louis, Missouri family, William S. Burroughs moved to Greenwich Village in the mid-1940s, where he met and married Joan Vollmer. Vollmer introduced Burroughs to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Burroughs took up writing and became a guiding spirit to the Beat Generation. Because of their heavy use of drugs, the couple (and their baby, William Jr.) eventually fled to Mexico. In 1951, in a drunken game of William Tell, Burroughs shot and killed Vollmer. Acquitted, Burroughs sank deeper into heroin addiction and finally flew to Europe to detox for good. It was after Vollmer's death that he openly acknowledged his homosexuality. He moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 1981 and lived there until his death from a heart attack in 1997. Burroughs influenced not only writers, but musicians like David Bowie and Patti Smith, who used the cut-up techniques that Burroughs developed; the groups Steely Dan (whose name comes from NAKED LUNCH) and the Rolling Stones (who wrote songs about several of his characters); Lou Reed, and Richard Hell. Burroughs was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandant de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres of France.

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Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Literary Mysteries
Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Noir
Fiction Themes » Types Of Characters » Bartenders
Fiction Themes » Types Of Characters » Bohemians
Fiction Themes » Types Of Characters » Detectives

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