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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)

Tinkers Hardcover | Pages: 192 pages

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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

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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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Ratings: 3.39 From 29279 Users | 4763 Reviews

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4★Geez. Another Pulitzer winner with so much I loved about it but with enough that was irksome to leave me dissatisfied. (Not that that matters.) Beautiful writing and characters and sense of place and time, although they all got mixed up in my head and I think in the characters heads as well. The generations of men kind of ended up all being the same person, or parts thereof. (Not that that matters either.)The original main character is dying (today) with grandchildren nearby. George tinkers

I'd love to reread this book one day and read it straight through without stopping (something I couldn't do as I was traveling). As it was, I did immediately reread many of its beautiful and complex sentences. After I finished the book, I thought of these sentences as a trail (perhaps that's because I did a lot of hiking on my trip) that leads you back to where you started. I first read these sentences in pieces, stopping to think, letting my mind settle on ideas and images, until I got to the

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

This short luminous volume reads more like poetry than a novel with a traditional narrative. I enjoyed its revelations in the same way I did the equally outstanding "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson. While he is dying and drifts in and out of lucidity, George reflects on events from his childhood growing up in rural Maine and Massachusetts and dwells on metaphors about life gleaned from his retirement avocation of repairing clocks. From these stepping stones, we slip into extended vignettes from

Oh my, I have heard so much praise for this book and this author. Well, it didn't work for me - not at all! First of all I tend to like looooooong stories and this is short. Secondly, the writing is all over the place, one minute poetical and then down to earth, matter of fact and simplistic. Sometimes sentences were numbered! Why? I would listen to a line and think, "What IS the author trying to say with that sentence?! What is his message?" I had no idea. Some of his descriptions of light, how

When I teach Plot in my creative writing classes, I return again and again to Anne Lamott who says, "You need to be moving your characters forward, even if they only go slowly. Imagine moving them across a lily pond. If each lily pad is beautifully, carefully written, the reader will stay with you as you move toward the other side of the pond, needing only the barest of connections -- such as rhythm, tone, or mood (Bird by Bird, 59). This is a lily pad novel. The writing is lovely, elegiac in

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