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Title	:	Tinkers
Author	:	Paul Harding
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2009 by Bellevue Literary Press (first published January 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature

Tinkers

Paul Harding

Hardcover | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.39 | 29279 Users | 4763 Reviews

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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 repairer’s 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, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, illness, faith, and the fierce beauty of nature.

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Original Title:	Tinkers
ISBN:	1934137197 (ISBN13: 9781934137192)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2010), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2010), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2009), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011)

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Ratings: 3.39 From 29279 Users | 4763 Reviews

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Paul Hardings Tinkers is a profoundly moving meditation on death and time. I gave the book five stars and would rank it among the best of its kind. Thats why I was particularly shocked, after finishing it, to see the overall rating of 3.3 among Goodreads users. Nonetheless, I do have a good idea why Tinkers resonated so deeply with me personally. Harding manages to describe the process of dying in much the same way that Ive imagined it since losing my first close friend at the age of eighteen. I

So, I started writing two book about 30 years ago. One is a novel and one is kind of a memoir. They could not be more inchoate. Which is to say: I have written the first line of each book and not a sentence more. But I like the first lines. I won't write them here. But, so you know, each first line is about my father.For me, all of this - all of this - is an attempt to figure out just who the hell I am. No psychiatrist's couch for me. Just novels that bleed and paintings that cry; music (why

I drip for the beauty of words, not sobbing, heaving tears, but slow wet salt that leaves a trail on gristled cheeks. Tinkers often reads more like a poem than a novel, holding extended passages describing nature or recollection in huge, meandering sentences that carry meaning and feeling like a swollen river delivers silt. It is not an easy read.Harding contemplates the tenuous borders of time, and the uncertain edges of reality. Life, existing under a lid, is limited, endangered This is the

I read through this short gem of a book twice, the second time to more appreciate the beautiful writing. It is a wonderful story of love and family relationships told through the thoughts of George Crosby, the clock repairer, as he lays dying. His memories come in disjointed bits, in streams of consciousness. He especially remembers his father, Howard, who was an itinerant peddler and tinkerer in the back country of Maine and suffered frequent fits of epilepsy. During the one fit George actually

Paul Harding's first book, Tinkers has totally amazed and delighted me. The fact that such a tiny novel could convey so much so well is a tribute to his literary skills. In an editorial in the Boston Globe, on April 16, 2010, it was reported how Harding was unable to find a publisher, passing the manuscript around to many houses, until a small publisher (Bellevue Literary Press)agreed to do it.Several people urged that the book be entered for the Pulitzer Prize and to waive the $50 submission

In the middle of a living room there is a bed, and lying in there, surrounded by family, among well-known things, listening to the clocks he used to repair an old man embarks on a journey. But it is not an ordinary journey. While his weakened body heads for death and nothingness his disintegrate mind freely moves towards opposite direction having as a guide this unreliable companion that memory is. George Crosby, its his name, watchmaker and handyman, plagued by hallucinations recollects his

The story behind Tinkers is almost more fascinating than the book. It's a debut novel, and Harding had a hard time getting it published. A very small press--Bellevue (yes, affiliated with Bellevue Medical Center, NYC--they also produce a nice literary mag that publishes only works that deal with mind/body, life/death/loss, illness issues, etc.) and they printed a very limited number of copies. Along comes the PULITZER! In an interview Harding says he found out he won on the Pulitzer website