{"product_id":"tristessa-9780140168112b","title":"Tristessa","description":"This short novel, which Jack Kerouac wrote in the mid-1950s, tells of an American man's ill-fated romance with an exotic, happy-go-lucky Mexican prostitute and morphine addict. Tristessa, who is Indian, and a deeply religious Catholic, lives in a room in a Mexico City slum with another addict and a menagerie of pets. After meeting her, the narrator leaves town for a year to travel in America, and upon his return  he finds Tristessa beginning to fall apart at the seams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis elegiac novel is both a haunting evocation of a spectral Mexico City and a moving meditation on a young woman's pain and suffering.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822425116752,"sku":"9780140168112B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780140168112-l.jpg?v=1785887890","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/tristessa-9780140168112b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}