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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Name: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Rating: 5 (18 reviews)
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
ISBN: 9780060839871

Robert M. Pirsig · 2006 · 430 pages

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 science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this 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 book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

recommended by 18 people

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Ev Williams
“One of the few novels I’ve ever read twice (though it’s been about 20 years, so it might be time for a reread). A philosophy book in the form of a novel that has very little to do with motorcycle maintenance. Instead, it has a lot to do with the elusive aspects of “quality,” and the importance of attitude in your approach to life.”↗
Josh Waitzkin
“Inspired my cultivation of dynamic quality as a way of life.”↗
Adam Savage
“Yeah. Game changer. At in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Great book for other reasons too.”↗
Joshua Waitzkin
“One of the most important books in the world to focus on quality than inequality, learning to find art in anything, deeply, deeply brilliant, philosophical book.”↗
Heather E Heying
“@tallcoachcd @amurshak I read Crawford's book after reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for the first time--the two in combination are an extraordinary voyage into the nature of work, value, and values.”↗
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