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Philosophy Made Simple

by Robert Hellenga

Format:  Paperback
Published:  March 2007
Category:  General
Publisher:  Little Brown & Co
Pages:  320

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Rudy Harrington has spent half his life in a rambling Chicago house, raising three daughters with his independent-minded wife. But his wife has died, his daughters have moved away, and Rudy is restless. In what he interprets as a moment of transcendent vision, he puts the family home up for sale and buys an avocado grove in Texas. While adapting to his new vocation, new home, and new friends, Rudy takes up a bookPhilosophy Made Simpleand begins to struggle with Plato and Aristotle, Hume and Schopenhauer. His newly acquired wisdom is put to the test when he enlists the neighborhood elephant to preside over his daughters Hindu wedding and falls in love with the grooms mother. Hellenga brings back characters from his bestselling The Sixteen Pleasures and introduces many compelling new onesincluding the elephant, who paintsin a novel that illuminates our deepest concerns: love and death, marriage and family, and the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.

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