The Buddhist Years
Collected Writings of Jack Kerouac
$33.99
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2026
Summary
A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist thinking.
From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644285893 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644285894 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Rare Bird Books |
| Imprint: | Rare Bird Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 243g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Sal Paradise |
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“The Buddhist Years: Collected Writings by Jack Kerouac show a writer seeking clarity in chaos.” * Tricycle *
“Charles Shuttleworth has done a remarkable job of excavating gem after gem of Jack Kerouac’s unpublished dharma writings, mostly from the collection at the Berg Library in NYC. What at first seemed a collection of scraps for the Kerouac completist quickly turned into a candy store of Jack’s thoughts that couldn’t be published by themselves until now.” * Marc Olmstead from Beatdom *
About The Author
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the “Beat generation” and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time.
Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of “one vast book,” The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
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