The Dharma Bums
- ISBN-10
- 0451165578
- ISBN-13
- 9780451165572
- Series
- The Dharma Bums
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1959-10
- Publisher
- Signet Book
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
Description
Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude, a lesson that has a hard time surviving their forays into the pagan groves of San Francisco's Bohemia with its marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, experiments in "yabyum," and similar nonascetic pastimes.
