And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Informationen zum Autor Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur , Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa , and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues . Jack Kerouac died in 1969. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: BURROUGHS, William S Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Keroua, KEROUAC, Jack Kerouac
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.08.2009
• EAN: 9780141189673
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118967-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; PENGUIN CLASSIC; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; PENGUIN CLASSIC
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, Crime and mystery fiction