Tinkers

by

Hardcover, 191 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2009 by Bellevue Literary Press.

ISBN:
978-1-934137-19-2
Copied ISBN!

View on Inventaire

2 stars (3 reviews)

An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth.

At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.

3 editions

reviewed Tinkers by Paul Harding

Review of 'Tinkers' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

to be honest, this book baffled me. a pulitzer prize winner, it screams 'high quality' but i could not get past it's poetic nature. sentences could fill near a page - thoughts joined by commas and semicolons - but couldn't keep my attention long enough to get the point. a man is dying. his thoughts are to his childhood and his abandonement by his father. mental illness seems to run throughout the story. first person narration switches from son to father... yup. baffled me

avatar for musicalmara

rated it

2 stars

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Identity (Psychology) in old age
  • Patients
  • Dementia
  • Reminiscing in old age
  • Literature
  • New York Times bestseller
  • nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2010-04-25
  • Identify Crisis
  • Fathers
  • Fathers and sons
  • Psychology
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Fathers and sons, fiction

Lists