Used Book Alerts 
This title in other formats:
- New, Mass market, $7.99
- New, Trade paper, $13.95
- Used, Trade paper, $8.00
- Used, Trade paper, $9.50
- Preorder, Trade paper, $16.95
- Used, Mass market, $4.50
- Used, Mass market, $4.95
- Used, Mass market, $5.50
- New, Hardcover, $26.00
- Used, Trade paper, $5.25
- Used, Trade paper, $5.75
- New, Compact disc, $136.75
- New, Audio cassette, $103.75
- New, Mp3 cd, $85.50
- Backorder, Library bound, $24.45
- New, Audio cassette, $24.95
- New, Cassette, $24.95
- New, Audio cassette, $49.95
- Used, Audio cassette, $35.00
- New, Cassette, $49.95
- New, Compact disc, $39.95
- New, Compact disc, $49.95
other titles in the Perennial Classics series:
- A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
- Alas, Babylon
- Art of Loving (56 Edition)
- Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works
- Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation
- Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth
- Brave New World
- Brave New World Revisited
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Collected Novellas
- Collected Stories
- Coming of Age in Samoa (01 Edition)
- Death Be Not Proud
- Demian
- Democracy in America (69 Edition)
- Dynamics of Faith
- Essays of E. B. White
- Gallipoli
- Giant
- Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie
- Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems, Tales, Criticism
- Great Short Works of Herman Melville
- Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
- Growing Up in New Guinea
- House Made of Dawn
- Innocent Erendira: And Other Stories
- Island
- Leaf Storm: And Other Stories
- Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy
- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
- Native Son
- Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Perennial Classic)
- Old Yeller
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Poetry, Language, Thought
- Red Sky at Morning
- Selected Poems 1947-1995
- So Big
- Sounder
- Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, with Forword and Notes
- The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classic)
- The Autobiography of Mark Twain
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- The Crying of Lot 49
- The Ginger Tree
- The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics Edition
- The Grass is Singing
- The House of Intellect
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
- The Life of Andrew Jackson
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- The Odyssey of Homer
- The Perennial Philosophy
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Perennial Classics Edition
- The Prophets
- The Skin of Our Teeth
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- The Wapshot Chronicle
- The Wapshot Scandal
- Three Plays
- Under the Volcano (00 Edition)
- V.
- Waiting for God
- Walt Whitman: A Life
- Watership Down
- When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession
- Years with Ross
- You Can't Go Home Again
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
|
|
|
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
The modern epic that transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions — a penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better.
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 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, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.
This new edition is updated with important typographical changes, a penetrating new introduction, and a Reader's Guide that includes an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.
Review:
"Profoundly important...full of insightsinto our most perplexing contemporarydilemmas." (-- New York Times)
Review:
"A miracle ... sparkles like an electric dream." (-- Village Voice)
About the Author
Robert M. Pirsig was born in 1928 in Minneapolis. He studied chemistry and philosophy (B.A., 1950) and journalism (M.A., 1953) at the University of Minnesota and also attended Benares Hindu University in India where he studied Oriental philosophy. He is also the author of a sequel to this book, entitled Lila.
What Our Readers Are Saying
Add a comment for a chance to win!
Average customer rating based on 1 comment:
-
lila, January 25, 2008 (view all comments by lila)
I'm surprised to not see any reader reviews. I first read this book when I was 19 years old (let's just say the book was still fairly new at that time...). Much of it was over my head, but I remember spending a lot of time thinking about it - so much that it took me forever to get through it!
Since that time, I have read this book every year for the last ten years. It still provokes thought and a lot of it is still over my head...but it has been a good friend.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780060958329
- Subtitle:
- An Inquiry into Values
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Perennial
- Location:
- New York, N.Y.
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Self
- Subject:
- Emotions
- Subject:
- Essays & Travelogues
- Subject:
- Zen
- Subject:
- Parental Memoirs
- Subject:
- Fathers and sons
- Subject:
- Adult
- Subject:
- Eastern - General
- Subject:
- Eastern - Zen
- Edition Description:
- 1st Perennial Classics ed.
- Series:
- Perennial Classics
- Series Volume:
- 106-945
- Publication Date:
- 20001001
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 464
- Dimensions:
- 8.01x5.29x1.17 in. .86 lbs.
