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Trade paperback in excellent condition. My sister gave this to me while I was visiting. From the back:

"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."

My review:

I only read a couple of "literary" books a year because I generally find the structures unsatisfying and plots non-existent. I like plot-driven fiction and well-developed characters. I do enjoy the work of a superb wordsmith when that is not the end-all of the piece and unusual structure when it is in service to the story. It took me a little time get into this book (and it's a little book at 191 small pages), but that probably had more to do with the fact that I had just finished a dense fantasy epic and hadn't quite switched gears.

I like the peripatetic structure of the book, visiting the sick bed of a dying man and swooping back and forth between his life and his father's, interspersed with passages about clocks. The language is engaging, the people flawed and endearing, the setting is hauntingly evoked, and the ending delivers. As a Pulitzer Prize winner, it has been glowingly reviewed elsewhere and I can add little in the way of analysis. I liked it and can recommend it to those who like to be challenged in their reading.

Put out on curb with 100 books marked FREE.
This one and 75 others taken during the day.

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