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Tristessa Paperback - 1992

by Kerouac, Jack

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Penguin, 1992. Later printing. Paperback. New. 96pp. Octavo [19.5cm]; illustrated wraps. A short novel written in the fifties about a young man's romantic encounter with a morphine addicted Mexican prostitute.
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  • Title Tristessa
  • Author Kerouac, Jack
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later printing
  • Condition New
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin, New York
  • Date 1992
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 50134
  • ISBN 9780140168112 / 0140168117
  • Weight 0.18 lbs (0.08 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.1 x 0.33 in (19.71 x 12.95 x 0.84 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Beat generation - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91043531
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

"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

From the publisher

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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About the author

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.

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