The dharma bums /

Kerouac, Jack

The dharma bums / Jack Kerouac ; with an introduction by Ann Douglas - Milton Keynes : Penguin Classics , 1958 - 204 pages : 20 cm

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.

9780141184883


20th century fiction --America
Literature--Mountaineering

PS3521 .E735 .D48

813.54