In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. Months later, the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated ...(展开全部)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this fail...(展开全部)

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in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished for many years. Written in the form of a mystery novel, the book consists of alternating chapters by each author writing as a different charac...(展开全部)

杰克•凯鲁亚克（Jack Kerouac，1922-1969），是美国“垮掉的一代”代表人物。他的主要作品有自传体小说《在路上》等。他以离经叛道、惊世骇俗的生活方式与文学主张，震撼了20世纪五六十年代美国主流文化的价值观与社会观。凯鲁亚克在小说中创造了一种全新的自动写作 手法——“狂野散文”，他的“生活实录”小说往往带有一种漫无情节的随意性和挑衅性，颠覆了传统的写作风格。其疏狂漫游、沉思顿悟的人生成为“垮掉的一代”的一种理想。 威廉•巴勒斯（William S. Burroughs，1914-1997），美国作家，与艾伦•金斯伯格及杰克•凯鲁亚克同为“垮掉的一代”文学运动的创始者，但他的写作更具有后现代主义者特征。主要作品有《瘾君子》、《裸体午餐》、《西部之地》和《新星快车》三部曲等，其中，《裸体午餐》在出版后引起了极大的争论，但如今已被奉为“垮掉的...(展开全部)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. Months later, the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated ...(展开全部)

Frank is ten. He likes cottage pie and football and cracking codes. Max is five. He eats only Quavers and some colours are too bright for him and if he has to wear a new T-shirt he melts down down down. Sometimes Frank wishes Mum could still do huge paintings of stars and asteroids like she used to, but since Max was born she just doesn't have time. When tragedy hits Frank and ...(展开全部)

Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God , is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skin...(展开全部)

Though during her life Zora Neale Hurston claimed her birth date as January 7, 1901 and her birth place as Eatonville, Florida, she was actually born on that date in the year 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. Within the first year or two of her life her family moved to all-black Eatonville, however, and this community shaped her life and her writing to a significant degree. John Hurs...(展开全部)

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God , is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skin...(展开全部)