Tinkers

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Windmill Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: Reprint

Description: 190 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. An Old Man Lies Dying In Bed When He Sees The Walls Begin To Collapse, The Windows Become Loose, And The Ceiling Falls Off In Big Chunks..

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9780099538042