And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

A fictional account of the 1944 murder of David Kammerer by Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, features the two authors writing in alternating voices from the perspectives of a bartender and a hard-drinking merchant marine.

• | Author: William S. Burroughs
• | Publisher: Grove Press
• | Publication Date: November 10, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0802144349
• | ISBN-13: 9780802144348