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 was one of the founders of the Beat Generation and its literature. He is most famous for his 1957 novel On the Road.
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0070342059
- ISBN 13 9780070342057
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages108
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Book Description Condition: Good-. First thus. Stated "First McGraw-Hill paperback edition, 1978 Set in Mexico City. It is based on Kerouac's relationship with a Mexican prostitute (the title character). The woman's real name was Esperanza ("hope" in Spanish); Kerouac changed her name to Tristessa ("tristeza" means sadness in Spanish and Portuguese). 96 pp. Indiana University ex-library marks. Seller Inventory # 42206
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