Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel

The course of a century is rewritten in this fabulously warped odyssey, named a best book of the year by the New York Times

Tours of the Black Clock is a wild dream of the twentieth century as told by the ghost of Banning Jainlight. After a disturbing family secret is unearthed, Jainlight throws his father out of a window and burns down the Pennsylvania ranch where he grew up. He escapes to Vienna where he is commissioned to write pornography for a single customer identified as "Client X," ...