In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycl...In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of, 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.