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In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life.In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.
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Lila, Robert M. Pirsig
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Lila
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert M. Pirsig
- Publisher
- Alma books
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Series
- Phaedrus
- Tags
- Fiction, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Classics, Spirituality, American Literature, Mysticism, Moral Values, Yachts
- First published
- 1991
- Original title
- Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life.In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.