| The Dharma Bums Contributor(s): Kerouac, Jack (Author), Parker, Tom (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786185791 ISBN-13: 9780786185795 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: November 2004 Annotation: This novel created a sensation by chronicling a spontaneous and wandering way of life in a style that seemed founded both on jazz and on drug-induced visions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Fiction |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.03" W x 5.98" (0.36 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. This autobiographical novel appeared just a year after the author's explosive On the Road put the Beat generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the bestseller lists. The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novel ignites this one. The novel is based on Kerouac's experiences during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kerouac, Jack: - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), father of the beat generation, was one of the most inventive writers of the twentieth century. He was the author of On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and many other books. Parker, Tom: -Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards. |