01610cam a2200229 4500 264276662 TxAuBib 20050420120000.0 050420s1974||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780688002305 0688002307 (OCoLC)673595 TxAuBib Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into Values. New York, NY : William Morrow & Co., Inc, 1974. 418 p. A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better Few books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a man’s search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters. It continues to inspire millions. 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. 20050420. Pirsig, Robert M. TXHAM