{"product_id":"tristessa-1","title":"Tristessa","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTristessa\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJack Kerouac\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140168112\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1992\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e96\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBased 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis elegiac novel is both a haunting evocation of a spectral Mexico City and a moving meditation on a young woman's pain and suffering.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Tristessa | Jack Kerouac | Paperback | 9780140168112 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks B 1778956","offer_id":49814955884696,"sku":"1778956","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41icfnbqbjL_af01a2cb-400a-47cb-ae31-d62a617a5ae0.jpg?v=1788542508","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/tristessa-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}