The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac torrent

Category: Classic, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Literature Autobiographical Novel Beat
Written by Jack Kerouac
Read by Tom Parker
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 7 hours and 1 minute

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 other non-ascetic 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 best-seller lists. The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novel ignites this one.