# Tristessa

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- Book: [Tristessa](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/tristessa) ([Tristessa.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/tristessa.md))
- Authors: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4016-811-2
- Pages: 96
- Published: 1992-06-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Based 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. “[Kerouac] loves language,...