Tristessa by Jack Kerouac [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1992 • Penguin Books ursula k le guin A sixteen year old girl

A sixteen year old girl slashes her baby stepbrother's throat from ear to ear

genius to full light

as the book contains the true name of God

an exquisitely beautiful young American woman

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Tristessa by Jack Kerouac [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1992 • Penguin Books ursula k le guin A sixteen year old girlTristessa by Jack Kerouac TRADE PAPERBACK RE ISSUE [1992] PENGUIN BOOKS Scarcer Penguin printing from the early 90's with great cover art. Trade paperback in very good condition. Some mild shelf wear to cover. Reads like new with a hint of tanning to pages. Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays