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

Pirsig, Robert M

ISBN 10: 0060839872 / ISBN 13: 9780060839871

Published by Mariner Books Classics (edition 1R), 2005

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics (edition 1R)
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060839872
• ISBN 13: 9780060839871
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1R.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Note: The font size of the text in the book is 11.5 pt

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.

About the Author

Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017) is the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which has sold more than five-million copies since its publication in 1974, and Lila, a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He graduated from the University of Minnesota (B.A., 1950; M.A., 1958) and attended Benares Hindu University in India, where he studied Eastern philosophy, and the University of Chicago, where he pursued a PhD in philosophy. Pirsig’s motorcycle resides in the Smithsonian Institution.