# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

- **Author:** Robert Pirsig
- **Read:** August 2019
- **Topic:** Science Fiction & Fiction (Fiction)
- **Published:** 1974
- **Pages:** 373
- **Picked by:** Nick
- **ISBN-13:** 9780688171667
- **Open Library:** https://openlibrary.org/works/OL827357W
- **Cover:** https://rwbookclub.com/assets/images/covers/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-332.jpg
- **Canonical page:** https://rwbookclub.com/books/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/

## Synopsis

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.