# 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_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4175-206-7
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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’.