Watch, Keith Buckley
Watch, Keith Buckley
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Watch

Author: Keith Buckley

Narrator: Will Damron

Unabridged: 4 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2018


Synopsis

When John Harvey’s watch stops working on the morning of February 3rd, 1987, he has an epiphany. It occurs to him that every personal trauma he is trying to forget has had one thing in common: they all occurred at some point on the face of that very watch. The loss of his job, the death of his child, Zola’s suicide, all contained right there in that tiny circle of finite numbers. So he smashes the watch. Problem solved.But when John steps out the door to make his daily trek to the local bar as a man newly freed from the tyrannies of time, he is met by a snowstorm that renders him completely blind, and a walk that should have taken just a few minutes begins to feel like years. Because as John Harvey wanders alone through the snow with no sun nor sign to guide him, the twenty-eight year old misanthrope is confronted by the vivid manifestation of every ghost he has devoted his lonely life to avoiding. In the storm he is forced to finally accept the suffering he has been hiding from. In the storm he is forced to understand that the only thing worse than never truly seeing is never truly being seen. In the storm he is forced, for once, to watch.

About Keith Buckley

Keith Buckley is the vocalist and lyricist for the critically acclaimed punk rock act Every Time I Die, which has sold hundreds of thousands of records worldwide and has amassed a substantial fan base while touring the globe for over a decade. He lives in Buffalo, NY.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erika on November 12, 2019

A very short, dramatic read of one man's unraveling after the death of his mother, wife, and unborn child. Chock full of the narrator disassociating, hallucinating ghosts from his past, and possibly imagined, possibly real people in his everyday life. He wanders around during a blizzard in Buffalo,......more

Goodreads review by Cassidy on December 04, 2018

3.5 stars, really. Part of me is upset at how incredibly disjointed and confusing this novel was, at the same time I acknowledge that we'll probably read it in literature classes 50 years from now. It's well crafted as hell. And beautifully worded. It was hard to keep up with, but I know being displa......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on August 24, 2018

Great. Really upsetting and unnerving.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 03, 2019

Mostly passed me by. Reminds me of Naked Lunch in many respects. It's feverish, murky and very confusing. It takes around 2-3 chapters to even give an idea of what is happening. The unpredictable shifts through time and into mania are also awkward to follow, while the overall narrative is neither he......more

Goodreads review by Leo on April 11, 2024

Like Buckley’s music, his writing is creative and frantic. Punchy. Laden with layers of booze and grime and sorrow passionately screamed. I was impressed by his ability to smear past, present , and imagined and by how well the theme matched the form of his writing. Timeless? Time will tell.......more