Tinkers by Paul Harding
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Tinkers by Paul Harding
An old man lies dying, confined to bed in his living room. He witnesses the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows loosen 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, until the black night covers him like a shroud.
In his death throes from cancer and kidney failure, he hallucinates. A methodical repairer of clocks, he is finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he 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.
Details: 192 pages; 06/01/2011
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