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 7 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. Tinkers is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
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Par Deborah - artist
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I know I'm spozed to like this book. It's a Pulitzer Prize winner and I've read them all, just to know what other more erudite and specialized folks consider great literature. I tried; I really tried. Gave it my undivided attention. But reading this book was a painful and depressing experience. Please, please spare me...!!
Unsympathetic narrator, unwieldy flash-backs and flash-forwards. Banal dialogue, cardboard characters who are not nice people, plot barely credible. Thank heavens it's short. It made me wonder about the writer... and about the Pulitzer jury. It does represent a certain trend of historical realism literature. But reading Tinkers will give you a Big Blues book hangover for a week.
Unsympathetic narrator, unwieldy flash-backs and flash-forwards. Banal dialogue, cardboard characters who are not nice people, plot barely credible. Thank heavens it's short. It made me wonder about the writer... and about the Pulitzer jury. It does represent a certain trend of historical realism literature. But reading Tinkers will give you a Big Blues book hangover for a week.
Par O-74
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les derniers jours de George Crosby, les souvenirs se bousculent: son père colporteur Howard, les horloges, le grand père prédicateur, les forêts de Nouvelle Angleterre, la nature.. Poétique, méditatif, superbe...
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Par Shannon
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Our book club picked this b/c of it's recent prize, but honestly... I just can't get into it. It was long. Very very long. There was no story to be drawn into, even if the writer clearly has a way with words. Words alone, are not enough to keep me interested. I quit the book after 80 pages, of which I regret reading 60, because I knew almost instantly that this book was not for me. I just wanted so much to like this book, but didn't.
I wanted to *find the events* in the book, but simply couldn't! It was a lot of reflection, and pondering, and memory, and this and that and the other but nothing seemed to happen that led me down a path. I felt like I was just meandering through two character's memories, bored to tears all the while.
Certain things flat out annoyed me. I found it slightly pretentious to assume that I would read 10 pages of a seemingly pointless (well, to me it was without real meaning), hallucination, for example. 10 PAGES. Really? Ugh. That was rough. I just kept thinking, "jesus, get ON with it".
I think readers who enjoy REEEALLYYYYYY taking their time to get to know characters and who don't mind when authors ramble as long as there's a pretty passage on each page, will enjoy this book.
I suppose I just really enjoy when a book *grabs* me, and then *shakes* me, then *slaps me in the face*, then *tells me to run!* you know? This book was massaging my back and whispering a lullaby, and occasionally saying "shhhhhhh... sleeeeeppppp" lol.
I enjoy page-turners. This is the exact OPPOSITE of that. Every single page I had to tell myself "turn the page, go on, don't give up, not yet".
I wanted to *find the events* in the book, but simply couldn't! It was a lot of reflection, and pondering, and memory, and this and that and the other but nothing seemed to happen that led me down a path. I felt like I was just meandering through two character's memories, bored to tears all the while.
Certain things flat out annoyed me. I found it slightly pretentious to assume that I would read 10 pages of a seemingly pointless (well, to me it was without real meaning), hallucination, for example. 10 PAGES. Really? Ugh. That was rough. I just kept thinking, "jesus, get ON with it".
I think readers who enjoy REEEALLYYYYYY taking their time to get to know characters and who don't mind when authors ramble as long as there's a pretty passage on each page, will enjoy this book.
I suppose I just really enjoy when a book *grabs* me, and then *shakes* me, then *slaps me in the face*, then *tells me to run!* you know? This book was massaging my back and whispering a lullaby, and occasionally saying "shhhhhhh... sleeeeeppppp" lol.
I enjoy page-turners. This is the exact OPPOSITE of that. Every single page I had to tell myself "turn the page, go on, don't give up, not yet".
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