{"product_id":"tristessa-0140168117","title":"Tristessa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0140168117\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kerouac, Jack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on Jack Kerouacs real-life love affair in Mexico City, this novel follows a mans 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 ReviewThis short novel, which Jack Kerouac wrote in the mid-1950s, tells of an American mans 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 womans pain and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51531294212384,"sku":"NEW0140168117","price":16.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41icfnbqbjL.jpg?v=1777277463","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/tristessa-0140168117","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}