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Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A collector's edition of five works by the late Beat Generation classic writer combines the eminent "On the Road" with the novels, "The Dharma Bums," "The Subterraneans," "Tristessa," and "Lonesome Traveler."
Jack Kerouac's On the Road remains electrifying in its thirst for experience and its defiant rebuke of American conformity. The Dharma Bums (1958), at once an exploration of Buddhist spirituality and an account of the Bay Area poetry scene,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
During the 1950s the search for Buddhist truths takes two young Bohemians through a series of bizarre experiences in California.
"A deluxe edition of Kerouac's 1958 classic Published just one year after On The Road, this is the story of two men enganged 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. For more than seventy...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating...
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