A year ago I got through fifty pages of this book and quit in bored frustration. But its alluring squareness kept nagging at a little corner of my brain, and I gathered my will to finish it a year later. And I'm still not quite sure what I think about it. On one hand, it's full of superb writing...
I would argue that this is more novella than novel (191 half pages), but that is really the only critical complaint I can muster. It as a bit sleep inducing at times (extensive description with masturbatory overtones on the part of the author), but the language was very beautiful and Harding did ma...
a pretty sweet, prosaic, domestic, masculine little novel about three generations of men, their connectedness through time despite their total disconnectedness from one another. Not earthshatteringly good, but better than most domestic novels, it doesn't get terribly maudlin, and there are some inte...
One old guy dying thinks of not only his life but that of his father, also dead. We the reader get to see more of both their lives than they share with each other. That's it for the story - oh, it's buttered up with quotes from a fictional clock repair manual, but the metaphor of a "life running dow...
I drip for the beauty of words, not sobbing, heaving tears, but slow wet salt that leaves a trail on gristled cheeks. Tinkers often reads more like a poem than a novel, holding extended passages describing nature or recollection in huge, meandering sentences that carry meaning and feeling like a swo...
This book was beautiful. As George lays dying, he spends his time reviewing his life. Not in the sense of actual choices made, but of moments, thoughts he's had, beliefs. George has spent his retirement years fixing old clocks, a tinker. His father Howard was a tinker who sold wares door to door in ...
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