And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

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.
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