Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values / by Robert Pirsig.
The author and his young son take a motorcycle trip across America. Their experiences become the springboard from which Robert Pirsig dives into his brilliant, often beautiful meditations on the concept of value.and finally, on the author's own troubled past.
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- ISBN: 9780061907982
- ISBN: 0061907987
- ISBN: 9780061907999
- ISBN: 0061907995
- ISBN: 9780061908019
- ISBN: 0061908010
- ISBN: 9781448114146
- ISBN: 1448114144
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: Pymble, NSW ; HarperCollins e-books, 2009.
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Having a difficult-to-impress 11-year-old boy as a traveling companion might hamper any man's ability to see goodness, but it was because of his son's deteriorating mental health that Pirsig urgently needed to repair and maintain his own outlook. Their motorcycle ride from Minnesota to California, with talkative companions, was a deeply personal philosophical journey. (SLJ 10/74) (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.