In capitoli alternati che rivelano un periodo nascente nel loro sviluppo come due degli scrittori più influenti del ventesimo secolo, le icone della Beat Generation William S. Burroughs e Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, è un elettrizzante giallo tratto dalla vita reale, che include la postfazione di James Grauerholtz in Penguin Modern Classics. Si tratta di un romanzo poliziesco hardboiled e di una storia vera. Nel 1944, Jack Kerouac e William Burroughs, allora ancora scrittori sconosciuti, furono entrambi arrestati in seguito a un omicidio: uno dei loro amici ne aveva accoltellato un altro e poi si era rivolto a loro per un consiglio, ma nessuno dei due aveva parlato alla polizia. In seguito scrissero questo resoconto romanzato di quell'estate, di un gruppo di amici nella New York in tempo di guerra, che si muovevano negli appartamenti degli altri, bevendo, pomiciando, parlando e assumendo droghe e andando alla deriva a casaccio verso un crimine sanguinoso. Inedito per anni, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks è una straordinaria intuizione nelle vite e nello sviluppo letterario di due grandi scrittori. Se ti è piaciuto And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, potresti apprezzare Kerouac's On the Road, disponibile anche su Penguin Modern Classics. "Il romanzo che ha dato il via a tutto" Independent "Uno sguardo su Kerouac prima che andasse in tournée e Burroughs prima che il suo uso di droga andasse fuori controllo, questo è un importante evento letterario" GQ.
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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.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth century's most influential writers, Beat Generation icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac's And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an electrifying true-life mystery, including afterword by James Grauerholtz in Penguin Modern Classics.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. Later they wrote this fictionalised account of that summer - of a group of friends in wartime New York, moving through each other's apartments, drinking, necking, talking and taking drugs and haphazardly drifting towards a bloody crime. Unpublished for years, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers. If you enjoyed And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, you might like Kerouac's On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The novel that kicked it all off'Independent'An insight into Kerouac before he went on the road and Burroughs before his drug use spiralled out of control, this is a major literary event'GQ. Codice articolo LU-9780141189673
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