Audio Book Description:
Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search fordharma, or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuitof the Zen way, which takesthem climbing into the high Sierras to so seek the lesson of solitude, a lesson that hasa hard time surviving their forays into the pagan grovesof San Francisco`s Bohemia withits marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, experiments in "yabyum," and similar nonascetic pastimes. Thisautobiographical novel appearedjust a year after the author`sexplosive ON THE ROAD put the Beat generation on the literary map and Kerouac on thebest-seller lists. The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novel ignites this one.
