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  • Dharma Bums of the Apocalypse

  • A Beat-Inspired Journey into the Heart of American Existentialism
  • By: W J O'Reilly
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins

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Dharma Bums of the Apocalypse

By: W J O'Reilly
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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In his latest novel, DHARMA BUMS OF THE APOCALYPSE, W.J. O'Reilly takes readers on a hallucinatory odyssey through the backroads and byways of America, and deep into the psyche of a generation grappling with the fundamental questions of existence. Part road trip narrative, part metaphysical meditation, the book is a daring and ambitious work that pushes the boundaries of contemporary fiction and establishes O'Reilly as an unsettling voice in American letters.

The story follows an unnamed narrator as he sets out on a cross-country motorcycle journey, seeking to escape the suffocating confines of modern society and to find a more authentic way of being in the world. Along the way, he encounters a cast of enigmatic characters - peyote shamans and digital avatars, ghost dancers and Ouroboros serpents - each of whom serves as a kind of spirit guide, leading him deeper into the heart of the American experience and the mysteries of his own soul.

O'Reilly's prose is lyrical and incantatory, with a raw, fevered intensity that recalls the Beat poets of the 1950s and the acid-fueled experiments of the 1960s. His writing is shot through with moments of startling beauty and transcendence, but also with a profound sense of existential dread, a recognition of the fundamental emptiness and meaninglessness of life in a godless universe.

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