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The Dharma bums
Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac
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An edition of The Dharma Bums (1950)

The Dharma bums

50th anniversary ed.

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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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Publisher
Viking
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

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Jack Kerouac

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California

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The Dharma bums
2008, Viking
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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
May 27, 1976, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Dharma bums
1973, Deutsch
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Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3521.E735 D48 2008, PS3521.E735D48 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxx, 187 p. ;
Number of pages
187

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22559941M
ISBN 10
0670019933
ISBN 13
9780670019939
LCCN
2008022159
OCLC/WorldCat
213308759
Library Thing
7199
Goodreads
2861990

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