Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
A lyrical, semi-autobiographical account of a young writer’s turbulent relationship with a morphine-addicted Mexican woman in Mexico City, portraying their tender yet destructive bond amid grinding poverty and illness; the narrator meditates on compassion, mortality, and spiritual longing through vivid, jazz-inflected prose.
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- Published
- 1960
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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