Hourmaster
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Author
Contributions
- Howard, Richard, 1929- - Contributor
Publication
1998 - New Directions, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
27,000 words, Guess
Page Count
108 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL694804M
- ISBN-100811213579
- OCLC Control Number37721514
- OCLC Control Numberhourmaster00bata
- Library of Congress Control Number97042141
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- Goodreads2559637
- LibraryThing528314
Classifications
- DDC843/.914
- LCCPQ2662.A842 M3513 1998
Description
Hourmaster is a novel about evil, the passage of time, and the dissolution of a society - France in the seventeenth century. In his palace in a city vanquished by the years, the Duke Gonzaga lives consumed by his deep boredom and his passion for young girls. Time passes as marked by the more than two hundred clocks situated throughout the palace. Needing a new hourmaster, Gonzaga employs Arturo to be the keeper of the palace's time-pieces. Arturo - called Gog - also becomes the Duke's friend and for a time alleviates Gonzaga's boredom as they share the nightly clock-keeping rounds. There seems to be the beginning of new life in the realm. But, for reasons the reader is to discover, doom settles like fog upon the Duke's domain and time stands still.
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