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Tinkers
Paul Harding
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Description for Tinkers
Paperback. 'Tinkers' is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation to the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184 191pp
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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099538042
SKU
9780099538042
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Paul Harding
Paul Harding is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers, and Enon. He teaches at the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook University, and lives on Long Island, New York.
Reviews for Tinkers
Wonderful, lyrical . . . Triumphant . . . A beautiful, moving and elegiac lament on the human condition . . . Hypnotic.
The Times
Brilliantly realised . . . a reminder of how rich the written language can still be
Independent
Prepare to be seduced... Beguiles from the opening sentence ...This little novel is a ... Read more
The Times
Brilliantly realised . . . a reminder of how rich the written language can still be
Independent
Prepare to be seduced... Beguiles from the opening sentence ...This little novel is a ... Read more