DHARMA BUMS,THE - Penguin Modern Classics

Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums, in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma, or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly Bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experients in Yabyum', they find the ascetic route distntinctly hard to follow. 'A vivid evocation of a part of our time' -New York Post-