"The Dharma Bums" appeared just one year after the author's explosive "On The Road" had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on ...Show synopsis"The Dharma Bums" appeared just one year after the author's explosive "On The Road" had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books follow two young 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.Hide synopsis
Description:First edition thus. Mass market paperback. Very good with light...First edition thus. Mass market paperback. Very good with light soiling to the covers, in pictorial wrappers.
Publisher: Signet Books. New York: New American Library
Description:# D-1718 Cover by Barye Phillips. paperback, 1959 first edition,...# D-1718 Cover by Barye Phillips. paperback, 1959 first edition, near fine,
Description:Fair. B001I51ASW ~Good. No DJ. Ex-Library from The Evergreen...Fair. B001I51ASW ~Good. No DJ. Ex-Library from The Evergreen State College. Water damaged, first few pages stained. 244 pages. 1st edition, 1958. Hardcover. Academic library markings/stamps; light to moderate shelf wear; satisfaction guaranteed. First published in 1958, a year after On the Road had put the Beat generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac? s most powerful, influential, and bestselling novels. The story focuses on two untrammeled young Americans? mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer? whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco? s Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras to Ray? s sixty-day vigil by himself atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Primary to this evocative and soulful novel is an honest, exuberant search for an affirmative way of life in the midst of the atomic age. In many ways, The Dharma Bums also presaged the environmental, back-to-the-land, and American Buddhist movements of the 1960s and beyond.
Description:Very Good with no dust jacket. A reasonably decent copy of the...Very Good with no dust jacket. A reasonably decent copy of the First Editon (First Printing) without a jacket. Mild staining to the front cover and to the top page edges, otherwise a pretty solid example. Worthy of marriage if you can find a VG jacket! ; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
Description:Very Good. First edition. Spine slant, moderate shelf wear and...Very Good. First edition. Spine slant, moderate shelf wear and aging, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in black cloth. No dust jacket.; 244 pages.
Description:Book and dust jacket very good. Bound in publisher's original...Book and dust jacket very good. Bound in publisher's original black boards with the front cover stamped in green and the spine stamped in silver and green. Ex-library with the usual markings. The dust jacket has chips and closed tears to the extremities.
This is, in my opinion, Kerouac's best book. Dharma Bums follows a young group of beats around the emerging northern california scene. The introduction of the zen way of life and its different interpretations by different people is vey interesting. THe imagery Kerouac provides is beautiful, especially ...
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