This is actually Kerouac's fourth published novel, preceded by The Town and the City (1950), On the Road (1957) & The Subterraneans (earlier 1958). Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude- a lesson that has a hard time surviving their forays into the pagan groves of San Francisco's Bohemia." (from front flap) The now-classic novel that appeared in the wake/ on the wave of the (unsought, ultimately destructive) sudden notoriety of its author, Beat Generation Founding Father Jack Kerouac, after the publication of On the Road during the previous year.
The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novel sparks this one.The principals are two ebullient young men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma, or Truth- a search that involves them, together and separately, in a series of free-wheeling explorations, both sacred and profane. "Here is the new Jack Kerouac novel- appearing just a year after the author's explosive On the Road put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller lists.
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