Tristessa -- Jack Kerouac, Paperback Barbara Jo Allen and literary rivalries

and literary rivalries

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and luminous debut novel from award-winning writer Breanne Mc Ivor follows a young Trinidadian woman finding her voice and a new kind of happy ending

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Tristessa -- Jack Kerouac, Paperback Barbara Jo Allen and literary rivalriesBased on Jack Kerouac's own real life love affair in Mexico City, this is the story of a man's ill fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control "Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich