An American Opera in Prose

About the Book

An American Opera in Prose replaces music with the prosody and imagery of language to create episodes in which the chance encounters and conversations of diverse characters converge upon one emerging theme: the wisdom of bringing a biological perspective to the problems of life. The author applies the rigor of philosophical thought to problems he sees as fundamental to our time, in a style more shamanistic than professorial.

About the Author

Harold Hayes grew up in an Air Force family (his father was a Tuskegee Airman), and lived on the east and west coasts of the U.S., and in Japan, France, and Germany. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in philosophy and served in the Peace Corps in Thailand. He has an M.A. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a concentration in medical philosophy and medical psychology. A member of the International Academy of Arms and the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association, he currently owns and directs Pacific Fencing Club in Alameda, CA, and teaches fencing at Mills College in Oakland.