Lila

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by Robert M. Pirsig

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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To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.

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To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.

— Robert M. Pirsig, Lila