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Bellevue Literary Press
January 2009
On Sale: January 1, 2009
192 pages
ISBN: 193413712X
EAN: 9781934137123
Hardcover
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Fiction
“This compact, adamantine début dips in and out of the
consciousness of a New England patriarch named George
Washington Crosby as he lies dying on a hospital bed in his
living room, ‘right where they put the dining room table,
fitted with its two extra leaves for holiday dinners’…In
Harding’s skillful evocation, Crosby’s life, seen from its
final moments, becomes a mosaic of memories, ‘showing him a
different self every time he tried to make an
assessment.’”—The New Yorker “Harding’s interest is in the universalities: nature and
time and the murky character of memory…The small, important
recollections are rendered with an exactitude that is
poetic…Harding's prose is lyrical and specific...Tinkers is
a poignant exploration of where we may journey when the
clock has barely a tick or two left and we really can’t go
anywhere at all.”—The Boston Globe "At only a very brief 192 pages, it still packs an emotional
punch that books of three times its length often lack. It's
a novel that you'll want to savor for its stunning yet
economical use of language, for its descriptions of nature,
of illness and health, and for its profound understanding of
humanity's deepest needs and desires for family and home. I
found reading it to be an incredibly moving experience, yet
Harding is in such control of his material that it never
devolves into mushiness or becomes maudlin."—Nancy Pearl “Tinkers is truly remarkable… It confers on the reader the
best privilege fiction can afford, the illusion of ghostly
proximity to other human souls.”—Marilynne Robinson,
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Home and Gilead “In astounding language sometimes seemingly struck by
lightning, sometimes as tight and complicated as clockwork,
Harding shows how enormous fiction can be, and how
economical. Read this book and marvel.”—Elizabeth McCracken,
author of Niagara Falls All Over Again “Tinkers is a remarkable piece of work…fascinating—and
sometimes horrific—to read, and is cumulatively moving
because it is woven together into the single quilt of our
humanity.”—Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize–winning author of
The Ruby in Her Navel 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.
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