Tristessa by Jack Kerouac [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1992 • Penguin Books ursula k le guin Now Jessie is utterly trapped

Now Jessie is utterly trapped in an isolated lakeside house that has become her prison—and comes face-to-face with her deepest

Tommy will soon come to glimpse something darker beneath the genteel complacency: the embarrassment of poor relations

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1975] BALLANTINE BOOKS

but drastically

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

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1992 • Penguin Books ursula k le guin Now Jessie is utterly trappedTristessa 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