The Dharma Bums
- ISBN-10
- 0140042520
- ISBN-13
- 9780140042528
- Series
- The Dharma Bums
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1958
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
Description
During the 1950s the search for Buddhist truths takes two young Bohemians through a series of bizarre experiences in California
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