Drinking up the Sea

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.