And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

William S. Burroughs with Jack Kerouac

214 pages hardcover 1945

28 editions

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On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kammerer had fawned over the younger Carr, but tha...

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