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Tinkers: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2010 - Softcover

Harding, Paul

 
9780099538042: Tinkers: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2010
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099538040 ISBN 13: 9780099538042
Verlag: Windmill Books, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Heartbreaking and life affirming, TINKERS is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul Harding is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers, and Enon. He teaches at the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook University, and lives on Long Island, New York.

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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.

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Verlag
Windmill Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099538040
ISBN 13 
9780099538042
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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