And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks [Library Binding]

Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century's most influential writers is being released. More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed.