Böcker av J. Hayes Hurley

Traces of Fire is J. Hayes Hurley's third hexalogyThere are six novels in Traces of Fire. Diamond House: an artist living in the Caribbean pushes the envelope of Gestalt perception. Rimbaud Redux: a lyrical poet keeps on working past his teenage years. The Noble Melancholy of the Blind Poet: individualism goes astray at a beautiful lakeside. The Speed of Light/The Taste of Bread: a defrocked priest tries to make sense of his place in space. The Philosophy of the Future in Nebraska: a journalist struggles with humanity's hatred of itself. Up at the Cabin: A Tale Taken from those Adirondack Days.J. Hayes Hurley is the author of sixty-six novels, including "The Adjunct" and "The Turtle Bay Novels." As well, he holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University.

In novel one, Asher and Oliver, an aged novelist goes on a spontaneous road trip in search of new material. In novel two, Cezar and the Sixers, a cosmologist tries to find a connection between the vastness of space and the life of his mentally handicapped brother. In novel three, Claude and Eddie, two young men walk up Broadway while exploring the scope of narrative and history. In novel four, Ella and Erwin, Schrodinger's cat lives to tell the outcome of a notorious thought experiment. In novel five, Morgan and Roe Tey, two ideologically driven Catholic children find their own separate ways in this world as adults. In novel six, Sean and Billy, two men revive their deep friendship and their shared love of Manhattan after a thirty-eight-year parting.

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

The Priests of Time contains ten short novels. The first five are located in Manhattan, and include settings in Washington Square, the Chelsea Hotel, Times Square during the 1960's, the East Village, and Battery Park. The second five are located "e;Elsewhere."e; The novels are to do with artists, poets, actors, novelists, and philosophers. Altogether, they show both the creative power and the intellectual prowess of the author.