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Thu 09 Sep 2008All-rounder Kerouac took some beating
AMERICA AT LARGE:The father of the Beat movement was just a twist of fate short of playing in the NFL, writes George Kimball
WHETHER HE was, as a critic once suggested, "probably the best football-playing writer ever", he was almost certainly the best-writing football player, and now, nearly 40 years after his demise, the last known manuscript of the late Jack Kerouac will be published in a few weeks' time when Grove Press issues And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Kerouac's 1944 collaboration with William S Burroughs.
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