Книга: William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac «And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks»

Производитель: "Penguin Books Ltd."

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 Unpublished for years, `And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks` is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great... ISBN:978-0-141-18967-3

Издательство: "Penguin Books Ltd." (2009)

Формат: 125x195, 224 стр.

ISBN: 978-0-141-18967-3

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