Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Language: English
Published by Mariner Books Classics, 2005
- Softcover
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- Title
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
- Author
- Pirsig, Robert M
- Publisher
- Mariner Books Classics
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060839872
- ISBN 13
- 9780060839871
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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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.
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