Hourmaster / Christophe Bataille ; translated by Richard Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bataille, Christophe.

Contributor:

Howard, Richard, 1929-2022.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Maître des heures. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Clocks and watches--Fiction.

Clocks and watches.

Palaces--France--Fiction.

Palaces.

France.

France--History--17th century--Fiction.

History.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

108 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, [1998]

Summary:

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.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0811213579

OCLC:

37721514