Tinkers

Name: Tinkers
Author: Paul Harding
ISBN: 9781942658597

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Tinkers won the Pulitzer Prize. A man lies dying, and his son sits beside him, waiting. In his fevered state, the man's thoughts drift back through time. We see him as a young man in love, as a boy watching his father's failed business ventures, as an old man content in his clock-repairing and his family. The novel moves fluidly between past and present, between the man's consciousness and that of his father, a traveling salesman and tinker. We witness their small triumphs and defeats, their humble attempts at building lives and leaving legacies. Through beautiful, precise prose, Paul Harding traces the arcs of these ordinary lives and their extraordinary inner worlds, creating a meditation on time, memory, family, and what endures.

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