The Last Continue
Published by Self-published · Fiction
A novel about finishing things, and about what a finished life turns out to be for. A clockmaker in Manchester, Connecticut spends fifty-six years noticing that the world does not always keep time.
ISBN-13: 9798194229079
Who this book is for
A standalone novel pitched to readers of Kazuo Ishiguro, Emily St. John Mandel, and Ted Chiang.
Table of contents
- The Apple Tree at Number 9
- Clockwork
- The Stars Rearrange
- Eighty-Two Winters
- Continue?
- Exit Interview
- Small Hours
- Patch Notes
- Kingdom of Ashes
- Colonial Drive
- Lake Nona
- The Long Afternoon
- Ward C
- A Finished Life
- 03:14
- Single Strand
- Epilogue: Show Your Work
Excerpt
By nine that August morning Tito Mendez had the movement spread across a bath towel on the repair bench under the apple tree: mainspring barrel to one side, escapement to the other, the little forest of brass posts standing in their holes like a town he knew street by street. The clock belonged to Mrs. Gong next door. It had kept time in her kitchen for forty-five years, through two stove fires and one flood and the year her sons both left, which she mentioned every time she brought it over for service, so that by now the clock and its history arrived together, like an old married couple.
