Tristessa - Softcover
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight.
"This entire short novel Tristessa's a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, & pads at dawn in Mexico City slums." --Allen Ginsberg
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Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140168117
- ISBN 13 9780140168112
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Tristessa is the name with which Jack Kerouac baptized Esparenza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, with whom Kerouac fell in live with during one of the many trips he made to Mexico, The novel tells the story of the author's love relatioship with this enigmatic woman. 96p. Seller Inventory # 2643622
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