Lila an inquiry into morals

"Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Haters 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 [this book, the author] has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.-Back cover."
"Sailing down the Hudson River, Phaedrus takes aboard a woman, Lila, and tries to answer the philosophical question of whether she has "quality.""
"Phaedrus, philosopher-narrator, cruises down the Hudson River as winter comes on. His companion is Lila, picked up in a riverside bar, who threatens to destroy his life's work. A passionate, philisophical journey dealing with the issues of the 1990's."@en
"Philosopher-narrator Phaedrus cruises down the Hudson River with his companion, Lila, who threatens to disrupt his life's work on the metaphysics of quality. Pirsig's narrative is interspersed with meditations on a range of ideas."
"Describes a voyage down the Hudson River undertaken by Phaedrus and a troubled companion, who provokes a philosophical crisis as the philosopher-narrator wrestles with essential questions of morality."@en