Tinkers

By Paul Harding

Subjects: nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2010-04-25, Identity (Psychology) in old age, Fathers, Fathers and sons, fiction, Dementia, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fathers and sons, Psychology, Reminiscing in old age, Patients, Identify Crisis, New York Times bestseller, Literature, Fictional Works, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2010-05-09

Description: An old man 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.