The Dharma bums /
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
The Dharma bums / Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Ann Douglas. - New York : Penguin Books, 2006. - xxviii, 187 p. ; 22 cm. - Penguin classics deluxe edition . - Penguin classics deluxe edition. .
Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1958.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]).
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.
0143039601 9780143039600
2006051511
Beat generation--Fiction.
Road fiction.
The Dharma bums / Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Ann Douglas. - New York : Penguin Books, 2006. - xxviii, 187 p. ; 22 cm. - Penguin classics deluxe edition . - Penguin classics deluxe edition. .
Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1958.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]).
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.
0143039601 9780143039600
2006051511
Beat generation--Fiction.
Road fiction.