Name: Lila
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Author: Robert M. Pirsig

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In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, author Robert M.  Pirsig takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work.  He uses a sailboat instead of a motorcycle to carry his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in.  Along the way he picks up a most unlikely travelling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. 

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