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Poetic exploration of memory, time, and death.

If the interplay of delicate prose and profound themes is what you look for in a read, "Tinkers" might just resonate with you. Harding's literary debut paints with words, crafting a narrative that's as much about the characters' lifetimes as it is about the fleeting moments that define them. This isn't just a book; it's an experience, a meditation on existence that's bound to leave lasting impressions.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2010)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2010)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2009)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011)
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ISBN: 9780099538042
Authors: Paul Harding
Publisher: Windmill Books
Date of Publication: 2011-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature, Literary Criticism
Goodreads rating: 3.41
(rated by 37210 readers)

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An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death throes from cancer and kidney failure. A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he had lost seven decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him, menacing and awe inspiring. Heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
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Poetic exploration of memory, time, and death.

If the interplay of delicate prose and profound themes is what you look for in a read, "Tinkers" might just resonate with you. Harding's literary debut paints with words, crafting a narrative that's as much about the characters' lifetimes as it is about the fleeting moments that define them. This isn't just a book; it's an experience, a meditation on existence that's bound to leave lasting impressions.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2010)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2010)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2009)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.