Tinkers

Paul Harding · 2009 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

As George Washington Crosby, a clock repairer in rural Maine, lies dying on a hospital bed in his living room, his mind returns to his father Howard, an itinerant tinker who sold household goods in the New England backwoods and suffered from epilepsy. The old man's last days merge with his father's strange and tender memory. A first novel from a small press that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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