# The Dharma Bums

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- Book: [The Dharma Bums](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/the-dharma-bums) ([The Dharma Bums.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/the-dharma-bums.md))
- Authors: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4134-806-2
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2018-08-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 books follow two young men 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.