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On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
£6.24
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Big Sur (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
£5.99
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Howl (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg
£5.49
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
£5.99
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The Subterraneans (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
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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.