The Dharma bums / Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Ann Douglas.
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TextSeries: Penguin classics deluxe editionPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2006.Description: xxviii, 187 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0143039601
- 9780143039600
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A deluxe edition of Kerouac's 1958 classic
Published just one year after On The Road , this is the story of two men enganged 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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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.