The Dharma Bums

Name: The Dharma Bums
Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780451165572

by Jack Kerouac

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Originally published by Viking Press

The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.

First published 1950224 pages

823.91

Category: Literature
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 4
Editions known: 54

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 823.91813.54
Library of Congress (LCC): PS3521.E735 D48 1990PS3521.E735 DhPS3521.E735PS3521.E735D48 1990

Subjects

813/.54American fiction (fictional works by one author)American literatureAudio - Autobiography / BiographyBeat generationBeats (Persons)Beats (persons)--fictionBuddhismFictionFiction - GeneralGeneralLiterature

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ISBN 9780451165572English

DATE DUE

First published1950

StatusREAD

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