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J Hayes Hurley
There are three Madagascar novels. The first, Madagascar in the Time of Covid, follows an elderly novelist to Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, where he is confined in his hotel…
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There are six novels in Somewhat Deeper Thoughts. In Bossa Nova at the Copinette, a Young Turk in cognitive studies finds both true love and a love of Brazilian music…
J. Hayes Hurley
The Adjunct by J. Hayes Hurley
Hotel di Roma by J. Hayes Hurley
Freelancing in Naples by J. Hayes Hurley
Dawkins and Daughter by J. Hayes Hurley
The Curmudgeon by J. Hayes Hurley
The Anomic Diaries by J. Hayes Hurley
Privacation by J. Hayes Hurley
The Gilgamesh Epic is the oldest known piece of writing. Its themes are Friendship versus Love, and the Quest for Immortality. In The Boxer and the Deep,the entire tale…
Leaving Lisbon by J. Hayes Hurley
A mysterious donor has given a gift to a New York publishing house to pursue the question Is there progress in philosophy? A senior editor, Dan Snyder, forms a separate…
From rural New Hampshire and on to New York, Paris, and London, The Clarksons is a panoramic tale of a multi-generational family of novelists and publishers, who play out sometimes…
Nikki and Caroline are two beautiful city nymphs working in present day Berlin, though their memories sometimes carry back to ancient Greece. Through them four Berlin stories interlock. The first…
An existentialist philosopher, Jack Ireland, is invited to Genoa, Italy, to search for a packet of missing letters supposedly left in a grand palazzo by Nietzsche in the 19th Century…
A young novelist and a newly minted philosopher take off on a road trip across America in a refurbished VW van. Along the way they meet a host of characters…
Motion and Rest, now in its second edition, is a Gnostic Western. Robert Glin, a paperback writer of western genre pulp, yearns to write an authentic novel about the new…
Joe, a recent graduate from photography school, moves to Amsterdam to seek fame and fortune. Along the way he meets two beautiful Dutch girls, Hennie, a poet, and Danique, a…
First Trilogy contains three short novels including The Poet at Home, My Soul is Among Lions, and Professor Chamberlin. The narrators of all three books are old men who reflect…
In Fourth Trilogy, Witness to the Clearing follows the fate of an ex-seminarian who is entrapped in a James L. Cain noir murder plot. A Comedy Closing off Broadway looks…
A successful abstract painter now living in an artists’ colony in upstate New York sits down with a short-story writer over a period of three days to discuss his life’s…
Second Trilogy contains three short novels including: The Fence, a tightly-woven existentialist fable; Oblivion, a caustic look at the fate of certain houses, families, and literary efforts; and Just Cursing…
Incident at the Medallion Club by J. Hayes Hurley
The Emeritus by J. Hayes Hurley
Little Albert Gachot had only one modest ambition in life. That was to own his own men’s accessories store. Finally settling in Marseille, France, his only chance to fulfill his…
Quinton Wrigley, a professional bridge player, lives in Manhattan with his mother, Gertie. On Sunday nights they dress up in 18th Century costumes and delve into such archane subjects as…
Seven members of a film crew show up one at a time at Billy’s Bar, the famous watering hole at the American Club of Hong Kong. There they talk to…
In Third Trilogy: Corvus at Rest follows the historical musings of a one hundred year old Roman dictator. Thou Saw the Fields chronicles the fate of three young Harvard grads…
Traces of Fire is J. Hayes Hurley's third hexalogy
There are six novels in Traces of Fire. Diamond House: an artist living in the Caribbean pushes the envelope of Gestalt…
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…
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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…
TWO NOVELS ARE SET IN TURTLE BAY, an upscale neighborhood in midtown Manhattan east. In The Historian at Eventide, an eighty-five year old historian races to find the meaning (if…
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…
