Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry into Values
First published 1974
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“The real cycle you’re working on is a cycle called ’yourself.’”One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America’s Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life’s fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.
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HarperPerennial Modern Classics · 430 pages
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial Modern Classics
- Pages
- 430
- ISBN
- 978-0-552-99378-4
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- Publisher
- HarperPerennial Modern Classics
- Pages
- 430
- ISBNs
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- 978-0-552-99378-4
- 978-0-553-14852-7
- 978-0-606-03960-4
- 978-0-553-12923-6
- 978-0-688-00230-5
- 978-0-06-190802-6
- 978-0-09-946957-5
- Author
- Pirsig, Robert M., 1928–2017
- Statement
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into Values / Robert M. Pirsig.
- Records
- Open Library
- Pirsig, Robert M
- Description and travel
- Fathers and sons
- Journeys
- Maintenance and repair
- Motorcycles
- Philosophy
- Philosophy and civilization
- Popular culture
- Psychology
- United States
- Robert M. Pirsig