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New York: Viking, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.,187pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($24.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A pretty collectable copy and surprisingly uncommon.
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The Dharma Bums Hardcover - 2008
by Jack Kerouac
A deluxe edition of Kerouac'smasterpiece on the 50thanniversary of its first publication
First published in 1958, a year after On the Roadhad put the Beat generation on the map, The DharmaBums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful,influential, and bestselling novels. The story focuses ontwo untrammeled young Americans mountaineer,poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith,a zestful, innocent writer whose quest for Truthleads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon partiesand poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia tosolitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierrasto Ray's sixty-day vigil by himself atop DesolationPeak in Washington State. Primary to this evocativeand soulful novel is an honest, exuberant search for anaffirmative way of life in the midst of the atomic age. Inmany ways, The Dharma Bums also presaged the environmental,back-to-the-land, and American Buddhistmovements of the 1960s and beyond.
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A deluxe edition of Kerouac?s masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its first publication
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.
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.
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- Title The Dharma Bums
- Author Jack Kerouac
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 50 Anv
- Pages 187
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, New York
- Date 2008-09-18
- ISBN 9780670019939 / 0670019933
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.34 x 0.84 in (23.37 x 16.10 x 2.13 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Beat generation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008022159
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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