Tristessa by Jack Kerouac (1992, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140168117
ISBN-139780140168112
eBay Product ID (ePID)40464
Product Key Features
Book TitleTristessa
Number of Pages96 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Classics, Literary
Publication Year1992
GenreFiction
AuthorJack Kerouac
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight2.9 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-043531
ReviewsPraise for Tristessa : "[I]t is always a pleasure to read a Jack Kerouac novel . . . The true importance of Kerouac is that he rekindled the Super-Romantic tradition at a time when it needed rekindling. He is a born writer . . . He 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 "We've just got to realize that we've got a great writer on our hands. This time we are getting the innocent lost heart straight." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisBased 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 exotic, happy-go-lucky Mexican prostitute and morphine addict. Tristessa, who is Indian, and a deeply religious Catholic, lives in a room in a Mexico City slum with another addict and a menagerie of pets. After meeting her, the narrator leaves town for a year to travel in America, and upon his return he finds Tristessa beginning to fall apart at the seams. This elegiac novel is both a haunting evocation of a spectral Mexico City and a moving meditation on a young woman's pain and suffering., "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, C line, 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
LC Classification NumberPS3521.E735T73 1992
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