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Original Title:	And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
ISBN:	0802118763 (ISBN13: 9780802118769)
Edition Language:	English

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Hardcover | Pages: 214 pages

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Title	:	And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Author	:	William S. Burroughs
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 214 pages
Published	:	2008 by Grove Press (first published 1945)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Mystery. Crime

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On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kammerer had fawned over the younger Carr, but that night something happened: either Carr had had enough or he was forced to defend himself. The next day, his clothes stained with blood, Carr went to his friends Bill Burroughs and Jack Kerouac for help. Doing so, he involved them in the crime. A few months later, they were caught up in the crime in a different way. Something about the murder captivated the Beats, especially Kerouac and Burroughs, who decided to collaborate on a novel about the events of the previous summer. At the time, the two authors were still unknown, yet to write anything of note. Narrating alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and violence, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives. They submitted their manuscript—called And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks after an absurd line from a radio bulletin about a circus fire—to publishers, but it was rejected and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. Finally published, at long last, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks tells the story of Ramsay Allen and the object of his fixation, the charismatic, idealistic young Phillip Tourian. Phillip and his friends drink and dream in the bars and apartments of the West Village, until, with his friend Mike Ryko (Kerouac's narrator), he hatches a plan to ship out as a merchant marine. They'll catch a boat for France and jump ship, then make their way through the front to Paris. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an engaging, fast-paced read that shows the two authors' developing styles. It is also an incomparable artifact, a legendary novel from the dawn of the Beat movement by two hugely influential writers.

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And the Hippos . . . is quite the hidden gem. A collaboration between Kerouac & Burroughs written in 1945 long before either of them achieved any literary success. The glimmers of future greatness are there, but perhaps more refreshingly the self-indulgences both writers are occasionally known for are absent. The Burroughs chapters have all of his trademark wry, black humor, and the Kerouac chapters lack some of his poetry but retain his pathos.The afterward detailing the history of this

I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks is a fictionalized account of David Kammerers murder by Lucien Carr in 1943, cowritten by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. The crime shocked the public opinion, partly because Carr was a gifted Columbia student and partly due to his claim that he

Burroughs AND Keroauc writing a book together? What more could you want?This book is BRILLIANT! Loved it. As it was written at a very early stage in their careers, I must admit that initially I had doubts - which were soon dispelled by the great quality of writing from both of these legendary writers. It almost beggars belief that they were just in the incipient stages of their soon-to-be-great literary careers, when they wrote this fascinating story which affected them all in a deep way.Kerouac

Although an enjoyable an entertaining read, felt incomplete by the end of the story. The book felt to short. Had potential to be greater than it actually was. Burroughs writing was simplistic and fact-oriented whereas Kerouac's writing was more dream-like and youthful, scattered even. Interesting to see the contrast. This as a whole was neither here nor there, unfortunately.

It probably shouldnt be a 5 star read, and it probably wont be for many, but by the time I turned the last page (and read James Grauerholzs afterword) I couldnt help but hug it. The afterword lifted the book, somehow. I knew the story from before, and the story itself isnt super interesting (or clear, for that matter, but no one really knows all the facts do they?) and the writing is good, but not fantastic, and yet: IT WAS SO GOOD!!!Its short and easy to read and I just couldnt put it down. I

And The Hippos was the first Kerouac novel I've read and through having no previous knowledge about the author or the Beats time period, I was mostly in awe of the scenes described in the book. Hippos was written about a murder in the mid 40's from the perspectives of two close friends of the victim and murderer. The change of writing styles between Burroughs and Kerouac from chapter to chapter made the novel engaging and all the more amusing. The stories told inclosed scandal and all kinds of

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a fictionalized account of a notorious and then-famous murder among a small group of people of the Bohemian-cum-Beat Generation, spiritual heirs of the so-called Lost Generation of a few decades earlier. Later, many of them would become famous, the rest famous by association, but at the time they were nothing but a group of assorted nuts and fruits, idling away their days by drinking every sort of alcoholic drink known to man, writing mooncalf poetry