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Drinking up the Sea contains six novels subtitled "A Hurley Hexalogy." Included are "The Last Existentialist," in which a ninety-year-old philosopher is on his way to accept an award; "Auteur," the story of boy meets girl as interpreted by an art cinema director; "Villas and Horizons," where an obscure copywriter compares his visions with those of Nietzsche and Tiberius; "Under the Greywacke Arch," wherein the search for the meaning of aesthetics is interrupted by visits from tiny characters out of our cultural past; "Smudge," showing how distinct pairs of philosophical concepts can be merged;…mehr

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Drinking up the Sea contains six novels subtitled "A Hurley Hexalogy." Included are "The Last Existentialist," in which a ninety-year-old philosopher is on his way to accept an award; "Auteur," the story of boy meets girl as interpreted by an art cinema director; "Villas and Horizons," where an obscure copywriter compares his visions with those of Nietzsche and Tiberius; "Under the Greywacke Arch," wherein the search for the meaning of aesthetics is interrupted by visits from tiny characters out of our cultural past; "Smudge," showing how distinct pairs of philosophical concepts can be merged; and "Walking in Beauty," a guide of the bleak aesthetics of one of the nation's oldest cities.
Autorenporträt
J. Hayes Hurley is the author of 87 novels, including Those Brownsville Blues, The Turtle Bay Novels, and The Adjunct. As well, he holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University.