Tinkers

English

ISBN: 193413712X

EAN: 9781934137123

Category: Fiction / Psychological

Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

Release Date: 05/09/2010

Synopsis: Pulitzer Prize American Library Association Notable Book PEN / Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers Award In Paul Hardings stunning first novel, we find what readers, writers and reviewers live for.-- San Francisco Chronicle There are few perfect debut American novels. Walter Percys The Moviegoerand Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbirdcome to mind. So does Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping.To this list ought to be added Paul Hardings devastating first book, Tinkers. . . . Harding has written a masterpiece. --John Freeman, National Public Radio Tinkersis truly remarkable. It achieves and sustains a unique fusion of language and perception. Its fine touch plays over the textured richnesses of very modest lives, evoking again and again a frisson of deep recognition, a sense of primal encounter with the brilliant, elusive world of the senses. It confers on the reader the best privilege fiction can afford, the illusion of ghostly proximity to other human souls. --Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Home, Gilead,and Housekeeping [ Tinkersis] a novel that youll want to savor. . . . I found reading it to be an incredibly moving experience. --Nancy Pearl An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As the clock repairers time winds down, his memories intertwine with those of his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his grandfather, a Methodist preacher beset by madness. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkersis an elegiac meditation on love, loss, illness, faith, and the fierce beauty of nature.

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Tinkers

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Width: 5.1 inches

Length: 7.1 inches

Weight: 6.81 oz

Pages: 192