At the Almont
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Publisher Price: $18.99
Publisher: John Hayes Hurley
Published: Dec 16 2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the Almont is a six-novel Hexalogy. In the first novel, The Helpmeet, an over-confident philosopher is checkmated by his younger wife who learns AI. In the second novel, Ironwords, a novelist with great imagination thinks words are like iron conduits that take us from this world to the beyond. In the third novel, The Historical Constant, an historian conceives of a constant akin to Plank's Constant, that will make any period of history equally important. In the fourth novel, Ballin', a professional basketball player deals with mafiosa who are closing in on his family. In the fifth novel, a popular podcast host tries to have it all but comes crashing down. In the sixth novel, A Kind of Quietism, an Almont heir opts for the passive life. All these characters live at the Almont, a former New York City mansion that has been converted into six coops.
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