The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Ann Douglas (Introduction), Ann Douglas (Introduction), Jack Kerouac (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $11.48

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $16.14

  Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and yabyum in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.