Tristessa
by Jack Kerouac
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Author: Jack KerouacForeword: Aram Saroyan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-06-01
ISBN: 0140168117
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of Tristessa
Book Review: Kerouac's most overlooked novel, and his best.
Summary: 5 Stars
Kerouac has fallen in and out of cult hero worship, for many
reasons. He was the forefather of the spectacularly popular
Beat Generation, his books are full of raw energy and
rebellion, and he died of a brain hemorrhage watching "The
Galloping Gourmet". These are all wonderful reasons to read
"On the Road" or "Subterraneans". Do not read "Tristessa"
for these reasons. Read "Tristessa" for its pure Kerouac
voice, for its wonderful hollow music which echoes the
wildest romantic poets, the heroin-desperate streets of Mexico
City, and the soul of Kerouac himself. This is Kerouac's
most haunting, melodic, and starkly religious work,
the story of true love and the lie of love, the story of
hope and of the crush of drugs, poverty and despair.
To read this
book is to be Kerouac, to be crazy-drunk with no place to
sleep and no money to eat, but to be crying with happiness
because the woman you love is unconscious in the gutter beside
you. You can hear the words inside your head long after
you close the book... "shouldna done it Lord, Awakenerhood,
shouldna played the suffering-and-dying game with the children in
your own mind, shoulda whistled for the music and danced..." "I love her but the song
is---broken---"
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