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New York. 1998. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0811213579. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. 108 pages. hardcover. Cover: Sylvia Frezzolini Severance. keywords: Literature Translated France. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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. inventory #31862.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book A bright, tight translation from the French into English by Richard Howard. DJ is clean & colorful w/lightest of rubbing to edges. Text is firmly bound w/clean pages throughout.
