The Very Fine ClockTwo stars team upMuriel Spark and Edward Goreyto bring the charming tale of Ticky the clock to life in this childrens classic. Once there was a very fine clock named Ticky, who lived with Professor Horace John Morris and kept perfect time. Each night, at fourteen minutes past ten, his time was used to set the rest of the clocks in the house. When the professors friends suggest that Ticky be made a professor, too, he explains what really happens during

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brimming with glamour and disastrous scarcities

state-sanctioned whippings

Olivia Laing grew up in an alcoholic family herself

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Published in 1962

reporting from the erogenous zones of New York and Europe

he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"—a government whose records were closed to the public

about her son’s gloomy demeanor and her daughter’s obliviousness to everything

Michael Silverblatt (born 1952) is the host of KCRW’s Bookworm and also regularly hosts literary conversations for Lannan Foundation's “Readings and Conversations” series in Santa Fe

bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction