# Tristessa

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- Libro: [Tristessa](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jack-kerouac/en/tristessa) ([Tristessa.md](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jack-kerouac/en/tristessa.md))
- Autores: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jack-kerouac)
- Editorial: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-899-0
- Páginas: 80
- Publicación: 2019-07-04
- Idioma: en_GB
- Encuadernación: Softcover

## Descripción

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