Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

An Inquiry Into Values

540 pages

English language

Published April 25, 2006 by HarperTorch.

ISBN:
9780060589462

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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.

30 editions

Subjects

  • Travel - General
  • Philosophy
  • Essays & Travelogues
  • General
  • United States
  • Self
  • Zen
  • Psychology & Psychiatry / General
  • Emotions
  • Eastern
  • Fathers and sons
  • Eastern - General