The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

 

If On the Road was Jack Kerouac’s ecstatic hymn to youth, movement, and rebellion, then The Dharma Bums is its quieter, more contemplative sibling. Published in 1958, just a year after On the Road transformed Kerouac into a reluctant icon, The Dharma Bums trades the open highway for the high trails, the jazz-inflected chaos of cities for the peace of mountaintops.