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Some of the Dharma

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  • Comments: First Paperback Edition. Written during a critical period of his life, Some of the Dharma is a key volume for understanding Kerouac and the spiritual underpinnings of his workWhile his future masterpiece, On the Road, languished on the desks of unresponsive editors, Kerouac turned to Buddhist practice, and in 1953 began compiling reading notes on the subject intended for his friend Allen Ginsberg. As Kerouac's Buddhist meditation practice intensified, what had begun as notes evolved into a...

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  • ISBN-13: 9780140287073
  • ISBN: 0140287078
  • Publisher: Penguin USA

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Kerouac, Jack

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"[T]he intimate logbook of a period of restless self-uprooting, semivoluntary poverty, celibacy and asceticism....[P]erhaps no other Kerouac volume has given away so much 'inside' data about the writer. The chart of Kerouac's psyche that emerges from these notebook pages of purported Buddhism studies reveals a quicksilver instability never so fully reflected in his fiction....The bones of real suffering poke honestly through the melancholy self-dramatizing..."Kerouac, Jack is the author of 'Some of the Dharma' with ISBN 9780140287073 and ISBN 0140287078.

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