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Tristessa

Paperback • 1992 • English

Tristessa

By Kerouac, Jack

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About the book

Based on Jack Kerouac’s real-life love affair in Mexico City, this novel follows a man’s doomed relationship with a woman as her life spirals out of control. “[Kerouac] loves language, and he obviously has a profound feeling for the human race. . . . In the end he is more truthful, entertaining, and honest than most writers on the American scene.”—The New York Times Book Review This short novel, which Jack Kerouac wrote in the mid-1950s, tells of an American man’s ill-fated romance with an exo...Show more

Classic fiction: general and literary
Historical romance
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging

Book details

ISBN

9780140168112

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

Tristessa

Format

Paperback

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