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The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac

1958 194 pages eng ★ 4.0 (5 ratings)

The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary…

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