Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, Junkie, the Soft Machine, the Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Queer, the Ticket That Exploded, the Western Lands, My Education: a Book of Dreams, the Word Hoard, Dead Fingers Talk, Blade Runner, Kentucky Ham, Port of Saints, Speed, the Cat Inside, the Place of Dead Roads, Ghost of Chance, the Wild Boys, the Nova Trilogy. Excerpt: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs . It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation , and remained unpublished for many years. Written in the form of a mystery novel, the book consists of alternating chapters by each author writing as a different character. Burroughs (as William Lee, the pseudonym he would later use for his first published book, Junkie ) writes the character "Will Dennison" while Kerouac (as "John Kerouac"), takes on the character of "Mike Ryko". 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. When Carr eventually turned himself in, 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.) As a consequence of his experiences r...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Novels By William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities Of The Red Night, Junkie, The Soft Machine (Study Guide). To get started finding Novels By William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities Of The Red Night, Junkie, The Soft Machine (Study Guide), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
78
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155234596
Novels By William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities Of The Red Night, Junkie, The Soft Machine (Study Guide)
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, Junkie, the Soft Machine, the Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Queer, the Ticket That Exploded, the Western Lands, My Education: a Book of Dreams, the Word Hoard, Dead Fingers Talk, Blade Runner, Kentucky Ham, Port of Saints, Speed, the Cat Inside, the Place of Dead Roads, Ghost of Chance, the Wild Boys, the Nova Trilogy. Excerpt: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs . It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation , and remained unpublished for many years. Written in the form of a mystery novel, the book consists of alternating chapters by each author writing as a different character. Burroughs (as William Lee, the pseudonym he would later use for his first published book, Junkie ) writes the character "Will Dennison" while Kerouac (as "John Kerouac"), takes on the character of "Mike Ryko". 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. When Carr eventually turned himself in, 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.) As a consequence of his experiences r...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Novels By William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities Of The Red Night, Junkie, The Soft Machine (Study Guide). To get started finding Novels By William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities Of The Red Night, Junkie, The Soft Machine (Study Guide), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.