The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac

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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.
  • ISBN10 0140042520
  • ISBN13 9780140042528
  • Publish Date 27 May 1971
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 January 2010
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pearson Education Limited
  • Imprint Prentice-Hall