false <![CDATA[And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256139457m/3297175.jpg 3297175 10 More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac sat down in New York City to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. The two authors were then at the dawn of their careers, having yet to write anything of note. Alternating chapters and narrators, Burroughs and Kerouac pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence. The manuscript, called <I>And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks</I> after a line from a news story about a fire at a circus, was submitted to publishers but rejected and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. This legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth centuries most influential writers is set to be published for the first time in the fall of 2008. A remarkable, fascinating piece of American literary history, <I>And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks </I>is also an engrossing, atmospheric novel that brings to life a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation. 3333873 1 11 2008 And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks total:412|5:65|4:154|3:150|2:33|1:10| 412 1467 777 97 4 5 false false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 20:36:01 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 21:47:46 -0700 2008
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If you are like me, you've been waiting for this to be published for years. It's penned by both Kerouac and Burroughs well before they were known or published. They alternate chapters, all 1st person. Burroughs writes eve...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 12:07:59 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 13:06:18 -0800 2009 STOP SMILING Two Takes reviews of this book:

Reviewer Steve Finbow writes:

I started to read the book armed with my critical weapons. I finished it, sheathed my switchblade, placed my knuckledusters back in their velvet bag, and slid my steel cobra into its hiding plac...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 05 06:53:23 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 06:59:13 -0700 2009
A friend surprised me with this books, which I did not know even existed. As a biased Kerouac fan, I was already expectant of a novel that would rank classically with other Beat greats such as On the Road and "Howl"; ATHWBITT is an "archived" novel co...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 19:34:44 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 20:04:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:03:55 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:06:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 11:49:46 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 15:55:41 -0700 2009
Hippos is a middle of the road work. It brings nothing new and, to be honest, isn't...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 12:30:18 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 12:14:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 17:45:42 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 19:01:01 -0700 2009
The naivete of these characters is what truly drew me in...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jul 16 09:01:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 09:02:02 -0700 2009
E os hipopótamos foram cozidos em seus tanques baseia-se num crime passional ocorrido de fato em Nova York, em 1944, às margens do rio Hudson - o assassinato de David Kammerer pelo adolescente Lucien Carr, ambos amigos de Burroughs e Kerouac. Agora, com os implicados falecidos, ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 10:36:09 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 10:49:41 -0700 2009 On The Road at the same time as reading Naked Lunch, alternating every other day... which is good. It feels more autobiographical than perhaps other beat titles do, which is also good. But it lacks a grander scope - it literally is a straightforward accounting of a ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 12:43:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 06:35:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 29 17:31:35 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 17:36:28 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 29 13:33:58 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 13:45:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 31 08:28:57 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 08:32:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 11:49:01 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 11:52:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 26 21:52:54 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 21:57:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3297175