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Author Pirsig, Robert M.

Title Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values / by Robert Pirsig.

Publication Info. New York : William Morrow & Company, [1999]
©1999, ©1974
[©1974]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  917.3 P672Z    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  121.8 PIRSIG    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  121.8 PIRSIG    Check Shelf
Edition 25th anniversary ed., with a new introduction by the author.
Description xiv, 418 pages ; 22 cm
Note Autobiographical.
Summary Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. This 25th Anniversary Edition features a new introduction by the author, in which he reveals his original intention about the book's controversial ending, as well as important typographical changes reflecting his ideas. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book 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, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life.--From publisher description.
Subject Pirsig, Robert M.
Fathers and sons -- United States.
Self.
Conduct of life.
Motorcycling -- Philosophy.
Motorcycles -- Maintenance and repair -- Philosophy.
ISBN 0688002307
9780688002305
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