Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
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9780688002305,
Hardcover,
Harpercollins,
1974
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9780688052300,
Paperback,
Harpercollins,
1979
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9780688171667,
Paperback,
Harpercollins,
1999
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9780370103389,
Hardcover,
Bodley Head,
1999
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9780060958329,
Paperback,
Harpercollins,
2000
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Publisher Notes
The modern epic that transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions -- 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 of 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 is updated with important typographical changes, a penetrating new introduction, and a Reader's Guide that includes an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.
Media Reviews
"One is tempted to call the book a psychomelodrama, for Pirsig's intentions are as extravagant as his themes. The attempt to triumph over madness, suicide, death in the self, of his son, for our world, by means of the patient exploration of ideas an emotions is certainly an extravagant ambition. That he succeeds in finding a plausible catharsis through such an enterprise seems to me sufficient reward for the author's perseverance, and ample testimony to his honesty and courage."
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