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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100451123131
ISBN-139780451123138
eBay Product ID (ePID)121065825
Product Key Features
Book TitleDharma Bums
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1959
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorJack Kerouac
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length5 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
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.
