Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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 sciencereligionand humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existencethis 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. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the bookincluding author interviewsrecommended readingand more.