Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
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Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: ‘a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua 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’.
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The Driver's Seat
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Chess
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The House of Hunger
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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The Burial of the Rats
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The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
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The Daemon Lover
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Where Everything is Music
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Can Socialists be Happy?
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The Blazing World
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A Dog's Heart
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A Dill Pickle
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Transformation
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A Hunger-Artist
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Why I am a Stoic
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Lamb to the Slaughter
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A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
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The New Dress
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Coal
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Secretary
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Thousand Cranes
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
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Night Flight
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After Midnight
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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
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Horsie
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Paris France
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The Rich Boy
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For Art and for Life
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Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
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The Umbrella
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To Read and Dream
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Some Japanese Ghosts
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The Story of an Hour
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Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
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Lady L.
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The Prose Edda
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Requiem
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Family Happiness
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Lois the Witch
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Unpacking My Library
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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A Lost Lady
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No Coward Soul Is Mine
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Stan the Killer
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Closely Watched Trains
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241752067 |
| ISBN 10 | 024175206X |
| Title | Tristessa |
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| Series | Penguin Archive |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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