And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
  • Published: 4 April 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141889542
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

The Inspiration for Kill Your Darlings

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First paperback publication of the legendary collaboration between William S. Borroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr 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 Months later, the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated on And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a fictionalized account of the summer of the killing.
  • Published: 4 April 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141889542
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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About the authors

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. In 1947, enthused by bebop, the rebel attitude of his friend Neal Cassidy, and the throng of hobos, drug addicts and hustlers he encountered in New York, he decided to discover America and hitchhhike across the country. His writing was openly autobiographical and he developed a style he referred to as 'spontaneous prose' which he used to record the experiences of the Beat Generation. Among his many novels are On the Road, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He died in 1969.

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