Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Softcover

Pirsig, Robert M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060839872 ISBN 13: 9780060839871

Publisher: Avon, 2017

Synopsis

A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better

A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.

This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

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Review:

"It is filled with beauty. . .a finely made whole that seems to emanate from a very special grace."--Baltimore Sun

"A miracle . . . sparkles like an electric dream."--The Village Voice

"The book is inspired, original. . . . The analogies with Moby-Dick are patent."--The New Yorker

"Profoundly important...full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas."--New York Times

"An unforgettable trip."--Time

Book Description:

'A brilliant and original book... Everybody should read it' Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0060839872
• ISBN 13: 9780060839871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464