{"product_id":"9780241388990","title":"Tristessa (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'She understands Karma, she says: \"What I do, I reap\"'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary. Based 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums' Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49158014632171,"sku":"EB_LI0700_B03-04_SIMS","price":19.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780241388990-1.jpg?v=1786016176","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780241388990","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}