The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Overview

Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature

First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans--mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer--whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101199305
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/27/1971
Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Series
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 193,888
File size: 651 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the “Beat generation” and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of “one vast book,” The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
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