# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

**Author(s):** Robert M. Pirsig
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**Genres:** biography, philosophy, psychology, existentialism, travel
**Publisher:** HarperCollins Publishers
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780061908040
**ISBN-10:** 0061908045
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance

## Description

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.

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