
A witty moving philosophical novel Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought This Penguin Modern Classics edition
Includes:: an introduction by Ann Douglas Following the explosive energy of On the Road the book that put the Beat Genration on the literary map
- & Jack Kerouac on the bestseller list
- comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth Ray Smith & his friend Japhy along with Morley the yodeller head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude & experience the Zen way of life But in wildly Bohemian San Francisco with its poetry jam sessions marathon drinking bouts & experiments in 'yabyum' they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist poet artist & part of the Beat Generation His first published novel The Town & the City appeared in 1950 but it was On the Road published in 1957 that made Kerouac famous Publication of his many other books followed among them The Subterraneans Big Sur & The Dharma Bums Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven If you enjoyed The Dharma Bums you might like Kerouac's On the Road also available in Penguin Classics'A vivid evocation of part of our time' New York Post'A descriptive excitement unmatched since the days of Thomas Wolfe' The New York Times Book Review