Tinkers - Couverture souple

Harding, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 193413712X ISBN 13 : 9781934137123

Editeur : Bellevue Literary Press, 2009

Synopsis

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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.

'Wonderful, lyrical . . . Triumphant . . . A beautiful, moving and elegiac lament on the human condition . . . Hypnotic.' The Times

'Brilliantly realised . . . a reminder of how rich the written language can still be' Independent

'Prepare to be seduced... Beguiles from the opening sentence ...This little novel is a
wonder' Irish Times

' An expert piece of historical and psychological archaeology, which unpicks the intricacies of ordinary life while also asking the terrifying, unanswerable, yet endlessly fascinating questions that haunt us all' Observer

Quatrième de couverture

'Tinkers is truly remarkable. It achieves and sustains a unique fusion of language and perception. Its fine touch plays over the textured richnesses of very modest lives, evoking again and again a frisson of deep recognition, a sense of primal encounter with the brilliant, elusive world of the senses. 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 Gilead and Home

'Tinkers is not just a novel - though it is a brilliant novel. It's an instruction manual on how to look at nearly everything...Read this book and marvel.' Elizabeth McCracken

'Tinkers is a remarkable piece of work.' Barry Unsworth

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bellevue Literary Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 193413712X
• ISBN 13: 9781934137123
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192