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The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

by Jack Kerouac
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Anne Douglas (Introduction by), Jason (Illustrator)Series:Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2006-11-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780143039600ISBN-10:143039601UPC:9780143039600Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, ReligiousSize:8.30 x 5.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SC6MY3WJZ1
Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature--featuring an Introduction by Anne Douglas

"In [On the Road] Kerouac's heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity."--Chicago Tribune

First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient 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.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780143039600ISBN-10:143039601UPC:9780143039600Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, ReligiousSize:8.30 x 5.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SC6MY3WJZ1
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
Publisher: Penguin Group

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Jack Kerouac, Anne Douglas (Introduction by), Jason (Illustrator)

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Jack Kerouac

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