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Encyclopedia > And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Author Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Mystery
Publisher NA
Publication date Unpublished; written 1945
Media type Manuscript
ISBN NA
 

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an unpublished manuscript written in 1945 by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, several years before the two Beat Generation founders achieved notoriety with On the Road and Junkie, respectively. Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. ... William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914) - August 2, 1997), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs (pronounced ), was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... In political geography and international politics, a country is a political division of a geographical entity, a sovereign territory, most commonly associated with the notions of state or nation and government. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus, written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. ... ISBN-13 represented as EAN-13 bar code (in this case ISBN 978-3-16-148410-0) The International Standard Book Number, ISBN, is a unique[1] commercial book identifier barcode. ... A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus, written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. ... Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. ... William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914) - August 2, 1997), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs (pronounced ), was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... “Beats” redirects here. ... :This article is about the novel On the Road. ... 50th anniversary edition, with Burroughs intended title spelling. ...


Intended to be a mystery novel, Burroughs later (in the film What Happened to Kerouac?) dismissed it as "not a distinguished work." Kerouac and Burroughs were unable to get the book published and only fragments are known to exist today.


According to the book The Beat Generation in New York by Bill Morgan, the novel was based upon the killing of David Kammerer who was obsessed with Lucien Carr. Carr stabbed Kammerer to death in a drunken fight, in self defense by some accounts, then dumped Kammerer's body into the Hudson river. Carr later confessed the crime, first to Burroughs, then to Kerouac, neither of whom reported it to the police. After Carr turned himself in to the police, Burroughs and Kerouac were arrested as accessories after the fact. Kerouac served some jail time because his father refused to bail him out, but Burroughs was bailed out by his family. (Kerouac married Edie Parker while in jail, and she then paid his bail.) The title itself comes from a news broadcast heard by Burroughs, covering a fire at the St Louis Zoo, and in which the announcer broke into hysterics on reading the line. Bill Morgan is best known as a CBC television producer. ... Lucien Carr (March 1, 1925 – January 28, 2005) was a key figure in the Beat generation, and later an editor for UPI. Carr was a roommate of Allen Ginsberg at Columbia University in the 1940s and met Jack Kerouac through Jacks then-girlfriend Edie Parker. ... Edie Parker was an author from the Beatnik generation and the first wife of Jack Kerouac. ...


Excerpts from And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks were published for the first time in Word Virus: A William S. Burroughs Reader which was released after Burroughs' death.


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