Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

The modern epic that transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions -- a penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 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, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life. This new edition is updated with important typographical changes, a penetrating new introduction, and a Reader's Guide that includes an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

Robert Maynard Pirsig (Minneapolis, Minesota; September 6, 1928-South Berwick, Maine; April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values* (1974) and *Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)*

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