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An edition of The Dharma Bums (1950)

The Dharma bums

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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
187

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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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2006, Penguin Books
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May 27, 1976, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Dharma bums
1973, Deutsch
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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1958

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix])

Published in
New York
Series
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3521.E735 D48 2006, PS3521.E735D48 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 187 p. ;
Number of pages
187

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17213572M
ISBN 10
0143039601
ISBN 13
9780143039600
LCCN
2006051511
OCLC/WorldCat
71427510
Library Thing
7199
Goodreads
23492

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL65897W

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