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Some books become bestsellers. A few become cultural touchstones. Very rarely, a book becomes a companion. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one of those books. Rejected by more than one hundred publishers before finally finding a home at William Morrow, Robert Pirsig’s philosophical road narrative went on to become one of the most influential and widely discussed books of the twentieth century. Part memoir, part travel narrative, part philosophical inquiry, the book follows a motorcycle journey across America while exploring questions of quality, value, technology, reason, and the examined life.
Its influence has been remarkably durable. Nearly fifty years after publication, readers continue to discover it, debate it, underline it, recommend it to friends, and return to it at different stages of life. For many, it is less a book than an experience. This copy is a first edition, first printing, complete with its original $7.95 dust jacket. While the jacket shows honest wear from decades of use, there is something fitting about that. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was never meant to sit untouched on a shelf. It is one of those books that people carried, reread, argued with, and lived alongside.
An increasingly collectible first edition of a modern American classic with one of the most devoted followings in contemporary literature.
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