Tinkers: 10Th Anniversary Edition

Tinkers: 10Th Anniversary Edition

Special edition of Paul Harding?s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel?featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras insideIn this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who 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.The story behind this New York Times bestselling debut novel?the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A Confederacy of Dunces received the award nearly thirty years before?is as extraordinary as the elegant prose within it. Inspired by his family?s history, Paul Harding began writing Tinkers when his rock band broke up. Following numerous rejections from large publishers, Harding was about to shelve the manuscript when Bellevue Literary Press offered a contract. After being accepted by BLP, but before it was even published, the novel developed a following among independent booksellers from coast to coast. Readers and critics soon fell in love, and it went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize, prompting the New York Times to declare the novel?s remarkable success ?the most dramatic literary Cinderella story of recent memory.? That story is still being written as readers across the country continue to discover this modern classic, which has now sold over half a million copies, proving once again that great literature has a thriving and passionate audience.Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.ReviewWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeNew York Times BestsellerADDITIONAL ACCOLADESAmerican Library Association Notable Book * American Booksellers Association Indie Next List, Indies Choice Honor Award, and Indie Next List for Reading Groups * International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist * Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Finalist * Center For Fiction First Novel Prize FinalistNAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BYNPR * New Yorker * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Irish Times * Granta * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * Barnes & Noble * Amazon.com?A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.? ?Pulitzer Prize citation?An exquisite novel . . . told with a voice so keen and beautiful as to leave the reader in a state of excitement produced only by literature, and the best literature at that.? ?PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize judges? citation?In this lyrical novel, the life of a dying man is examined through the smallest moments of time and memory.? ?American Library Association Notable Book citation?[Tinkers is a novel] we hear customers hand-selling to other readers in that you?ve-got-to-read-this voice. The protagonist?s deathbed memories of his father are a meditation on life and death, written in impeccably lovely prose. Tinkers is incomparable.? ?Indie Next List for Reading Groups citation by Cheryl McKeon, Book Passage, San Francisco, CA?A true gem that sparkles with thoughtfulness, intelligence and life.? ?New Hampshire State Library, International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist citation?There are few perfect debut American novels. . . . To this list ought to be added Paul Harding?s devastating first book, Tinkers. . . . Harding has written a masterpiece.? ?NPR Best Debut Fiction of the Year citation?A novel with an old-fashioned meditative quality so perfectly done that it is refreshing to read in a world filled with noises and false