num_pages: 464
description: 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.
language: English
title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
titlecomplete: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
characters: Phaedrus, Chris, Sylvia Sutherland, John Sutherland
genres: Fiction, Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Psychology, Literature, Classics, Self Help, Travel, Unfinished
ratings_count: 226000
places: The United States of America
series: Phaedrus
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Contemporary Affairs
publisher: Harper Perennial