- Beat generation, Fiction, Murder, Beats (Persons)
"On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River.
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Grave, relentless, bleak and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 214
- Publisher
- Distributed by Publishers Group West, Blackstone Audiobooks, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781433249136
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