Kerouac, Jack, — Dharma Bums.

NY, Penguin Books, (1977). Fair PB. This 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 best-seller lists. The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novel sparks this one but through a more cohesive story. The principals are two ebullient 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- 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 esssions, experiments in "yabyum" and similar nonacetic pastimes. New York Post called it "Vivid evocation of a part of our time." Edge wear, underlining and highlighting.