TINKERS, A Novel by Paul Harding (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Paul Harding. Published by Bellevue Literary Press, USA., 2009, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED by the Author on the title page. Printed in USA. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with a 'Signed by the Author' sticker on front cover. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 7 x 5 inch, 191 pages.  

TINKERS, A Novel by Paul Harding, 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.

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.

A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he had lost seven decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him, menacing and awe inspiring.

"A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality" -Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2010.

For more info on this Author, please see: Bio — PAUL HARDING

1st Edition & Signed by Author  

ISBN: 9781934137123  

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