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. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence. The manuscript, named after a line from a news story about a fire at a circus, was rejected by publishers and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century’s most influential writers is being released. Both a fascinating piece of American literary history and an engrossing, atmospheric novel, it brings to life a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation.
© 2009 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781481544719
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 10 februari 2009
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. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence. The manuscript, named after a line from a news story about a fire at a circus, was rejected by publishers and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century’s most influential writers is being released. Both a fascinating piece of American literary history and an engrossing, atmospheric novel, it brings to life a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation.
© 2009 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781481544719
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 10 februari 2009
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Anders
8 feb. 2021
Jag fullkomligen älskar Kerouacs ”På drift” och ”Dharmagänget”, och då jag snubblade över den här inläsningen av ”And the hippos were boiled in their tanks”, blev jag lyrisk. Visst är den långt från beatnik-konceptet - men storyn är tajt och att lyssna till de olika New York-karaktärernas accenter/dialekter som uppläsaren presterar, så gör sig den här boken allra bäst i ljudformat. Tycker jag i alla fall. ”Läs den” och förundras över hur mycket 10 dollar i juni 1944, kunde räcka till i sprit, öl- och matväg.
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