Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
Published 1992 · 96 pages · 26,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Tristessa to read?
Tristessa scores 100 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
Where the story of Tristessa takes place
- Mexico City, mid-1950s (1955 to 1956), the main setting