books.google.com - One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Dharma_bums.html?id=Es3fmFyTrIIC&q=grass&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Dharma bums