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| Author: | Kerouac, Jack |
| Title: | The Dharma Bums |
| Publisher: | Viking, New York |
| Pages: | 244 pp. |
| Date: | 1958 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Experiential mode |
| Annotation:The story of two peripatetic denizens of the West Coast drug culture seeking enlightenment through Zen Buddhism captures the ambience of a social era in the '50's perfectly, including the drug culture. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: positive. | |
| Author: | Kerouac, Jack |
| Title: | On the Road |
| Publisher: | Viking, New York |
| Pages: | 310 pp. |
| Date: | 1957 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Experiential mode |
| Annotation:This picaresque novel moves across the U.S.A with Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity as they search jazz joints, crash pads, dope dens, and interstate highways for new ways—chemical or spiritual—to get high. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: positive. | |
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