Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Subtitle: an inquiry into vlalues
By: by Robert Pirsig.
Edition: 25th anniversary ed., with a new introduction by the author.
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Pirsig, Robert M.
Description: Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book 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, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life.
Notes: Autobiographical.