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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Robert M. Pirsig, 1928–2017, United States.

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HarperPerennial Modern Classics · 430 pages

Publisher
HarperPerennial Modern Classics
Pages
430
ISBN
978-0-552-99378-4 +6
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Publisher
HarperPerennial Modern Classics
Pages
430
ISBNs
  • 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

Subjects

  • 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