Tristessa Contributor(s): Kerouac, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 1942531214 ISBN-13: 9781942531210 Publisher: DeVault-Graves Agency OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5" W x 8" (0.28 lbs) 112 pages |
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Publisher Description: In 1955 novelist Jack Kerouac detoured from his cross-country American travels to Mexico City where a group of junkie expatriates he had known from the New York City post-War scene had gone for the cheap and plentiful supply of heroin and morphine. Fellow Beat writer William S. Burroughs, who had been a part of the Mexican expatriate community, had introduced Kerouac to Bill Garver (named Old Bull Gaines in the novel), a much-older long-term addict who had in turn introduced Kerouac to Esperanza Villanueva, whom Kerouac named Tristessa in the novel. Kerouac fell under the spell of Esperanza's dark allure and exotic surroundings and hoped to re-experience the "fellaheen nights" of his joyous adventures with Mexicans in his past.
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