Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance An Inquiry Into Values

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 on 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 contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.Pirsig, Robert M. is the author of 'Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance An Inquiry Into Values', published 2005 under ISBN 9780060839871 and ISBN 0060839872.