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Author | Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs |
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Language | English |
Genre | Mystery |
Publisher | Grove Press (US) Penguin Classics (UK) |
Publication date | November 1, 2008 (US) |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Hardcover |
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished in complete form until 2008.