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Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac (1958, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100670272019

ISBN-139780670272013

eBay Product ID (ePID)121529458

Product Key Features

Book TitleDharma Bums

Publication Year1958

TopicGeneral, Literary

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorJack Kerouac

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight320.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisOne of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac., Two ebullient young men are 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, a lesson that has a hard time surviving their forays into the pagan groves of San Francisco's Bohemia with its marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, experiments in "yabyum," and similar nonascetic pastimes.