Genre: | Fiction |
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Language : | English |
Published: | July 04, 2019 |
Edition: | 3rd |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780241388990 |
ISBN10: | 0241388996 |
Pages: | 80 |
Dimensions: | 5.08 x 7.8 x 0.16 inches |
Weight: | 66.9 g |
'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"'
Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary. Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico city, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control.
'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, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums' Allen Ginsberg