Dharma Bums

Author: Jack Kerouac

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  • : $28.00 AUD
  • : 9780143039600
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Classics
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  • : March 2007
  • : 215mm X 138mm X 16mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 35.99
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  • : Modern fiction
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Barcode 9780143039600
9780143039600

Description

Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.

Author description

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.