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~ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 2010, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize - 2010
A dying man, surrounded by family, slips in an out of consciousness, between the present and the past . . .
At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, the fierce beauty of nature, and the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation to the next.
“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 Jury Citation