05279cam a2201213 4500 583940344 TxAuBib 20220519120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781934137222 1934137227 8dc53307-e932-4099-8cb5-47b0eaa034e3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 239552 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Harding, Paul. Tinkers [Libby]. Bellevue Literary Press, 2009. End of Life. family. bestselling author. Faith. literary fiction. new york times bestseller. childhood. small town. award-winning. generations. America. Maine. book club. Nature. consciousness. Pulitzer. Fiction. hermit. new england. classic. bestseller. Coming of age. American. Identity. Death. memory. Historical Fiction. fathers and sons. novel. Family relationships. debut. grief. illness. dying. reading group. Pulitzer Prize. rural. Grandparents. Clocks. grandchildren. History. debut novel. epilepsy. literature. American Literature. Literary. Natural World. theology. grandfathers. Book of the Year. transcendentalism. clockmaker. fathers day. critically acclaimed. first novel. parents and children. best book of the year. contemporary classic. American Experience. multiple generations. pulitzer prize for fiction. Marilynne Robinson. independent publisher. independent press. American Library Association Notable Book. Enon. horologist. Indie Next List. Iowa Writers' Workshop. nineteenth cenury. Paul Harding. small press. small publisher. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 170kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. 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 Southampton.. Media Type: eBook. Pulitzer Prize. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-17 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/8DC/533/07/Tinkers9781934137222.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8DC53307-E932-4099-8CB5-47B0EAA034E3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/8DC/533/07/Tinkers9781934137222.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8DC53307-E932-4099-8CB5-47B0EAA034E3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)