The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

£600.00

The follow-up to and set in the immediate aftermath of the author’s groundbreaking ‘On the Road’, the Dharma Bums is a semi-autobiographical account of the author/ protagonist’s attempts to reconcile his love of the natural world (hiking etc.) with jazz clubs and drinking and parties in the city in the context of the Zen Buddhism that Kerouac had become interested in. This is the first edition, published by Viking, New York, in 1958, and is in Very Good condition, with just the dust jacket a bit scuffed but otherwise clean and tight throughout.

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The follow-up to and set in the immediate aftermath of the author’s groundbreaking ‘On the Road’, the Dharma Bums is a semi-autobiographical account of the author/ protagonist’s attempts to reconcile his love of the natural world (hiking etc.) with jazz clubs and drinking and parties in the city in the context of the Zen Buddhism that Kerouac had become interested in. This is the first edition, published by Viking, New York, in 1958, and is in Very Good condition, with just the dust jacket a bit scuffed but otherwise clean and tight throughout.

The follow-up to and set in the immediate aftermath of the author’s groundbreaking ‘On the Road’, the Dharma Bums is a semi-autobiographical account of the author/ protagonist’s attempts to reconcile his love of the natural world (hiking etc.) with jazz clubs and drinking and parties in the city in the context of the Zen Buddhism that Kerouac had become interested in. This is the first edition, published by Viking, New York, in 1958, and is in Very Good condition, with just the dust jacket a bit scuffed but otherwise clean and tight throughout.