
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Such exchanges animate the kingdom // of the clock, but one by one their trades / complete, blink out like eyes. The city sleeps.
Set in a vibrant yet ragged coastal city, Kingdom of the Clock is a verse novel whose interwoven storylines begin with one day's dawn and end at the first light of the next. Within the cycles of that single day, the lives of the city's inhabitants unfold.
An aging stock promoter presides over the fruits of his predatory life. A woman tracks her husband's iPhone to the casino. An artist races to prevent her masterpiece from being seized to cover unpaid rent. A commuter is shaken by a private vision. A mother plots to care for her unwell adult daughter. Senior and junior partners involved in a fraud weigh the risks and rewards of betraying each other. A boy boards an oil tanker with his father in an emergency. An elderly chess player prays to the moon for his grandchild to be born alive. A homeless man does not know his father is dying.
After night's crescendo comes the blank page of a new day. A clear, flowing lyricism fuses the many moving parts of Kingdom of the Clock into an immersive, unforgettable reading experience.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- First Light
- Daybreak
- Commute
- Offices
- Morning Spent
- Noon
- Late Lunch
- Second Hour of Afternoon
- End of School
- Mid-Afternoon
- Last Hour of the Workday
- Angelus
- Dinner
- Dinner
- Nightfall
- Lamp-Lighting
- Bedtime
- Owl Hour
- Midnight
- Closing Time
- The Watch
- Intempesta
- The Lonely Hour
- Before Waking