- Fiction, Sailing, Ethics, Philosophy
Sequel to the wildly popular Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Pirsig expands on the ideas of Quality and expands them into a complete Metaphysics of Quality.
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Earnest, contemplative, grave and character-led.
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- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Robert M. Pirsig
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 462
- Publisher
- S. Fischer Verlag, Random House Audio, Corgi
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- tur, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780553077377
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Robert Maynard Pirsig (Minneapolis, Minesota; September 6, 1928-South Berwick, Maine; April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values* (1974) and *Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)* **Source**: Wikipedia.
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