The Dharma Bums
$21.25
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2007
Summary
Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics’ key Kerouac holdings.
THE DHARMA BUMS appeared just one year after the author’s explosive ON THE ROAD had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The book follows two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184884 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 128mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac wrote a number of hugely influential and popular novels. He is remembered as one of the key figures of the legendary Beat generation. As much as anything, he came to represent a philosophy, a way of life.
Ann Douglas is Professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published numerous essays, articles and book reviews on American culture in papers and periodicals such as The New York Times, The Nation and Slate, and introductions for Little Women, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Subterraneans among others. Prof. Douglas teaches twentieth-century American literature, film, music, and politics, with an emphasis on the Cold War era, African-American culture, and post-colonial approaches. She is currently at work on a book, Noir Nation- Cold War U.S. Culture 1945-1960.
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