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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: an inquiry into values / by Robert M. Pirsig.
LIBRA - Special CT275.P648 A3 1974b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pirsig, Robert M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pirsig, Robert M.
- Fathers and sons--United States.
- Fathers and sons.
- United States.
- Self.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 412 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Advance uncorrected copy.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Morrow, 1974.
- 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. 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.
- Notes:
- Autobiographical.
- OCLC:
- 903903767
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