THE DHARMA BUMS
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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Synopsis
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred 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, essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015257
- Title
- THE DHARMA BUMS
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Kerouac, Jack,FIRST EDITION,THE DHARMA BUMS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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