num_pages: 480
description: In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life.In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.
language: English
title: Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
titlecomplete: Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus, #2)
characters: Lila, Bill Capella, Phaedrus, Richard Rigel
genres: Metaphysics, American, Philosophy, Novels, Travel, Literature, Psychology, Classics, Fiction, Spirituality
ratings_count: 6912
series: Phaedrus
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Bantam