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by Jack Kerouac (Author), Ann Douglas (Introduction) "Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with..." (more)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (3 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141184884
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141184883
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,640 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Book jacket
Following the explosive energy of "On the Road" comes "The Dharma Bums" in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth.

Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in "yabyum", they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow.

"A vivid evocation of a part of our time" New York Post

"A descriptive excitement unmatched since the days of Thomas Wolfe"--The New York Times Book Review

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Synopsis
"The Dharma Bums" appeared just one year after the author's explosive "On The Road" had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books follow two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.

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Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled north to Santa Barbara. Read the first page
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