And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their T..., Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 4 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/11/2008

Category: Fiction


Synopsis

More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hardboiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence. The manuscript, named after a line from a news story about a fire at a circus, was rejected by publishers and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth centurys most influential writers is being released. Both a fascinating piece of American literary history and an engrossing, atmospheric novel, it brings to life a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation.

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