The Dharma Bums Costa Book Award for First Novel (2018) combines wildly imaginative fantasies and

combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett

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Publication Date: 01 Dec 1998

The Dharma Bums Costa Book Award for First Novel (2018) combines wildly imaginative fantasies andFollowing 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 experiments in 'yabyum', they