Tinkers

Tinkers
Authors
Harding, Paul
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN
9781934137192
Date
2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.14 MB
Lang
en
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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.