{"product_id":"tristessa-p-b-w3","title":"Jack Kerouac: Tristessa (Penguin Modern Classics) [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'She understands Karma, she says: \"What I do, I \u003ci\u003ereap\u003c\/i\u003e\"'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kerouac, Jack","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44242428559650,"sku":"9780241388990","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kerouac-jack-jack-kerouac-tristessa-penguin-modern-classics-2019-paperback-9780241388990-57319919485267.jpg?v=1727902034","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/tristessa-p-b-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}