{"product_id":"the-dharma-bums-50th-anniversary-edition","title":"The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eA deluxe edition of Kerouac?s masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its first publication  First published in 1958  a year after On the Road had put the Beat generation on the map  The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac?s most powerful  influential  and bestselling novels. The story focuses on two untrammeled young Americans?mountaineer  poet  and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder and Ray Smith  a zestful  innocent writer?whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey  from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco?s Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras to Ray?s sixty-day vigil by himself atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Primary to this evocative and soulful novel is an honest  exuberant search for an affirmative way of life in the midst of the atomic age. In many ways  The Dharma Bums also presaged the environmental  back-to-the-land  and American Buddhist movements of the 1960s and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946720915509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0670019933","price":119.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780670019939.jpg?v=1769963150","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-dharma-bums-50th-anniversary-edition","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}