Tristessa
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1978. First Edition Thus. "Written in two installments duing visits Kerouac made to Mexico in 1955 and 1956, Tristessa is a portrait of a young prostitute destroying herself in the squalid drug underworld of Mexico City. Here, in the characteristic voice of Kerouac at the height of his dazzling descriptive powers emerge the major themes of his eclectic religious romanticism." (from back cover) An apt misspelling..... More
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