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An edition of The Dharma Bums (1950)

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The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.

The book concerns duality in Kerouac's life and ideals, examining the relationship of the outdoors, mountaineering, hiking, and hitchhiking through the west US with his "city life" of jazz clubs, poetry readings, and drunken parties. The protagonist's search for a "Buddhist" context to his experiences (and those of others he encounters) recurs throughout the story. The book had a significant influence on the Hippie counterculture of the 1960s.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
244

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Subjects
American fiction (fictional works by one author), Beat generation, Fiction, Literature, Beats (Persons), Buddhism, Romans, nouvelles, San francisco (calif.), fiction, American literature, Unabridged Audio - Autobiography/Biography, General, Personal Memoirs, Audio - Autobiography / Biography, Fiction - General, Beats (persons)--fiction, Ps3521.e735 d48 2006, 813/.54
People
Jack Kerouac
Places
California

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The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
October 31, 2006, Penguin Classics
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The Dharma bums
2006, Penguin Books
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The Dharma bums
1990, Penguin Books
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The Dharma Bums
May 27, 1976, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Dharma bums
1973, Deutsch
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Edition Notes

"First published in the United States of America by the Viking Press, 1958"--T.p. verso.

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New York, N.Y., U.S.A

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3521.E735 D48 1990, PS3521.E735D48 1990

The Physical Object

Pagination
244 p. ;
Number of pages
244

ID Numbers

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OL1581384M
ISBN 10
0140042520
LCCN
91104876, 58011734
OCLC/WorldCat
693142788, 18544166
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7199
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412732

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