Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Complete and unabridged, this work includes 12 CDs, with a total duration of 13 hours. A famous, partly autobiographical, novel published in 1974 hailed as one of the top books of that decade. A father and his teenage son travel together, by motorcycle, across the vast spaces of mid-America. But it is a relationship in crisis. Against the monotonous beauty of weather and landscape, the father's inner voice begins to relate motorcycle maintenance with the order and method that define Zen Buddhism, a train of thought which leads to the notion of 'quality' - a concept of such philosophical challenge that attempting to define it threatens sanity itself. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"… more » is an extraordinary story of relationships, values, madness and, ultimately, enlightenment.
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