The Dharma bums
by Jack Kerouac
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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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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), Beats (persons)--fiction, Ps3521.e735 d48 2006, 813/.54People
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The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
October 31, 2006, Penguin Classics
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0143039601 9780143039600
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Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1958
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix])
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