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    The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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    The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    By Jack Kerouac, Anne Douglas and Jason

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    Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature

    “In [On the Road] Kerouac’s heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.”—Chicago Tribune

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Books
    Release dateMay 27, 1971
    ISBN9781101199305
    The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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    Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American novelist, poet, and, with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, a central figure of the Beat Generation. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, of French-Canadian parents and briefly attended Columbia University before falling in with a group of friends that would eventually define a literary movement. Big Sur is considered by many critics to be his finest literary achievement.

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