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Must-Read Maine (21) » 17 mere Top Five Books of 2013 (1,038) Top Five Books of 2014 (711) Contemporary Fiction (53) Best Family Stories (213) Reading 2010 (2) First Novels (198) Books Read in 2011 (177) Fiction For Men (118) Alphabetical Books (193) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I read my rain-soaked copy after drying each page in the sun. I recommend that everyone read it in this manner. (  ) Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |  First edition  Snowplum85 | Apr 29, 2023 | davdittrich | Feb 14, 2023 | George Washington Crosby is dying. He lies on a hospital bed in his home in Maine, surrounded by his family. He reflects back on his life in a series of disjointed memories. George likes to fix clocks to make extra money and he compares his life to the winding down of a clock. He also recalls his father, Howard, a tinker, and his grandfather, a minister, and realizes how much they all had in common. This is a story of fathers and sons, life and death, love and forgiveness, told through the visions, memories, and hallucinations of a dying man. “George Crosby remembered many things as he died, but in an order he could not control. To look at his life, to take the stock he always imagined a man would at his end, was to witness a shifting mass, the tiles of a mosaic spinning, swirling, reportraying, always in recognizable swaths of colors, familiar elements, molecular units, intimate currents, but also independent now of his will, showing him a different self every time he tried to make an assessment.” I have mixed feelings about this book. The writing is beautiful. However, I found it difficult to become engaged. It does not flow in sequence, reflecting the deteriorating state of George’s mind, and the plot is sparse. It is a very creative work, and I can see why it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction but found I it hard to follow, at least initially. Recommended to those that enjoy experimental fiction. (  ) Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 | eh.... boring ... for sam's book club. ready maybe 1/2. apende | Jul 12, 2022 |
 "There are few perfect debut American novels. Walter Percy's The Moviegoer and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird come to mind. So does Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. To this list ought to be added Paul Harding's devastating first book, Tinkers, the story of a dying man drifting back in time to his hardscrabble New England childhood, growing up the son of his clock-making father. Harding has written a masterpiece around the truism that all of us, even surrounded by family, die alone."  The occasional overwriting, the looping narrative, and the almost defiant lack of plot made this a hard book to sell to publishers. An array of editors at major houses rejected the novel, no doubt afraid it would never sell. It apparently sat for several years in the writer's desk. Then an obscure house, the Bellevue Literary Press, published it to such little fanfare that the New York Times (like most papers) ignored it completely. Then, miracle of miracles, it won the Pulitzer. Among the many triumphs of this novel, Harding enables a reader to look at the world differently, without the things that normally encumber experience. Tinkers is a considerable achievement. Its prose is complex, sometimes convoluted, but at its best suffused with brilliantly realised imagery and a reminder of how rich the written language can still be. "In Paul Harding's stunning first novel, we find what readers, writers and reviewers live for: a new way of seeing, in a story told as a series of ruminative images, like a fanned card deck." HæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML: Paul Harding's Pulitzer Prize??winning and New York Times??bestselling debut novel about memory, consciousness, and our place in the natural world. 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. 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. Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize??winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southamp No library descriptions found. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers AlumPaul Harding's book Tinkers: 10th Anniversary Edition was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  Populære omslag
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