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And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their, William.S. Burroughs
And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their
William.S. Burroughs

Penguin | Hardback | $35
Fiction | Published 1/11/2008 | ISBN: 1-8461-4164-8

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, 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 Months later the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated on a fictionalised account of the week leading up to the killing. Unpublished until now this is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers.

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