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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 20 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Ray Porter. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Carr, Lucien, 1925-2005 -- Fiction.
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Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Beat generation -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
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Porter, Ray, 1965-
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982434656 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982434651 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10026595 |
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