Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017)

Pirsig, Robert M. Biography Description And Travel Fathers And Sons Journeys

Bantam Books • 1974 • 406 pages

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Robert M. Pirsig

1928-2017

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...

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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.