Concord-based novelist Stona Fitch once worked for a high-end watch company. He walked away from it with an idea for a novel about a watch that could kill people.
Would you buy and wear a high-end designer watch that was capable of killing you at any moment?new novel,"Death Watch," that's what an enigmatic, avant-garde artist and provocateur named Watanabe says he and a Japanese team of engineers have developed and put on the market. Each watch – called the Cassius Seven - is individually programmed to potentially thrust seven small, hyper-sharpened knives into the wearer's wrist.
Unless it's just a macabre art project/hoax and Watanabe is trying to make a point about rampant consumerism, conspicuous consumption, ostentatious risk-taking, or, maybe even what depths clinical depression can drive one to."My books are more about questions than answers," Fitch says."I want the reader to figure it out."
Vessel becomes Wearer No. 1, the first to strap the watch on, which he's assured is benign, a dummy model. But is the person reassuring him of that — Watanabe's right-hand man — telling the truth? Fitch, who is 61, graduated from Princeton and took writing courses from Joyce Carol Oates and the late Russell Banks, who became a friend and mentor. Fitch has written five books under his name and two as Rory Flynn. Put most simply, Fitch says,"The Rory ones are a Boston-based crime series; he's more of a crime writer than I am."
As for watches, in 2018, an entrepreneur got in touch with Fitch, looking for help rebranding an Italian watch company that he had just purchased. The company made beautiful, semi-high-end watches, and Fitch took on the role of researching and writing new copy for the company.
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