TY - BOOK AU - Kerouac, Jack TI - The dharma bums SN - 9780141184883 AV - PS3521 .E735 .D48 U1 - 813.54 PY - 1958/// CY - Milton Keynes PB - Penguin Classics KW - 20th century fiction KW - America KW - Literature KW - Mountaineering N2 - 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 ER -