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Tinkers
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Author : Paul Harding
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-28
Tinkers written by Paul Harding and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with Fiction categories.
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 seven 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. Heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
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Author : Paul Harding
language : en
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Tinkers written by Paul Harding and has been published by Bellevue Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside In 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.
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Author : Mary Burke
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-07-16
Tinkers written by Mary Burke and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J.M. Synge's influential The Tinker's Wedding was pivotal to this 'Irishing' of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure's cosmopolitan textual roots. Synge's empathetic depiction is closely examined, as are the many subsequent representations that looked to him as a model to subvert or emulate. In contrast to their Revival-era romanticization, post-independence writing portrayed tinkers as alien interlopers, while contemporaneous Unionists labelled them a contaminant from the hostile South. However, after Travellers politicized in the 1960s, more even-handed depictions heralded a querying of the 'tinker' fantasy that has shaped contemporary screen and literary representations of Travellers and has prompted Traveller writers to transubstantiate Otherness into the empowering rhetoric of ethnic difference. Though its Irish equivalent has oscillated between idealization and demonization, US racial history facilitates the cinematic figuring of the Irish-American Traveler as lovable 'white trash' rogue. This process is informed by the mythology of a population with whom Travelers are allied in the white American imagination, the Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots). In short, the 'tinker' is much more central to Irish, Northern Irish and even Irish-American identity than is currently recognised.
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Author : Paul Harding
language : de
Publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag
Release Date : 2011-12-06
Tinkers written by Paul Harding and has been published by Luchterhand Literaturverlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-06 with Fiction categories.
Ein Roman voll poetischer Kraft und Zärtlichkeit Der Uhrmacher George Washington Crosby liegt, umgeben von seiner Familie, in seinem Haus in dem Städtchen Enon im Sterben. Paul Hardings Roman begleitet ihn durch seine letzten Tage, reist aber auch zurück durch die Zeit und spürt den Erinnerungen nach, beschwört die Landschaft von Maine herauf, Georges ärmliche Kindheit, das Leben seines Vaters Howard, der noch als »Tinker«, als Kesselflicker und fahrender Händler, mit dem Maultierkarren über Land zog.
Tinker S Sea
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Author : Stephen B. Pearl
language : en
Publisher: Brain Lag
Release Date : 2016-07-30
Tinker S Sea written by Stephen B. Pearl and has been published by Brain Lag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-30 with Fiction categories.
Oil reserves depleted. Society collapsed. A few places cling to modern technology. For everywhere else, there are the Tinkers. In southern Ontario, Novo Gaia uses sustainable energy to support its citizens in comfort. From there, Novo Gaia sends Doctors of Applied General Technology, tinkers, into the Dark Lands to install everything from solar stills to televisions—and make a profit. After twenty years as an E.R. nurse, Tabitha “Tabby” Drivensky’s failing marriage sent her into the tinker program and the open waters of the Great Lakes. While fulfilling her Coast Guard service obligation, she rescues a boy named Andy Camble from a sinking ship. Andy turns out to have vital information on Packer, a pirate captain who has been plaguing the Great Lakes for generations in an ancient, nuclear-powered submarine. Using Andy’s intelligence, Tabby sets out ostensibly to scout out a new aquatic tinker route along Lake Huron but secretly assigned by Novo Gaia to find and put an end to Packer once and for all.
Tinker S Farm
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Author : Stephen Rabley
language : en
Publisher: Pearson UK
Release Date :
Tinker S Farm written by Stephen Rabley and has been published by Pearson UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Readers (Elementary) categories.
Traders And Tinkers
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Author : Maitrayee Deka
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-08
Traders And Tinkers written by Maitrayee Deka and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-08 with Social Science categories.
The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized by an ability to leverage minimal resources, these tradesmen live and die by their ability to adapt their stores to the popular tastes of the day. In Delhi in the 21st century, an extensive network of informal marketplaces, or bazaars, has evolved over the course of the city's history, across colonial and postcolonial regimes. Their resilience as an economic system is the subject of this book. Today, instead of mending and selling fabrics and pots, these street vendors are primarily associated with electronic products—computers, cell phones, motherboards, and video games. This book offers a deep ethnography of three Delhi bazaars, and a cast of tinkers, traders, magicians, street performers, and hackers who work there. It is an exploration, and recognition, of the role of bazaars and tinkers in the modern global economy, driving globalization from below. In Delhi, and across the world, these street markets work to create a new information society, as the global popular classes aspire to elite consumer goods they cannot afford except in counterfeit.
Tinker Evers And Chance
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Author : Gil Bogen
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2003-11-13
Tinker Evers And Chance written by Gil Bogen and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Though they never led the league in double plays turned, and though at times they actively disliked one another, Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance of the Chicago Cubs have for decades been called one of the greatest, most colorful and most memorable double-play combinations of all time. But their places in the Hall of Fame have been disputed by some who believe their reputation rests with a piece of Franklin P. Adams doggerel. This triple biography of Tinker, Evers, and Chance covers each man's career and life before and after baseball, giving special attention to their relationship on and off the field. The author also considers the trio's induction into the Hall of Fame in 1946 and examines the arguments made on both sides of the debate.
The Tale Of The Three Tinkers With Notes And A Glossary
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Author : Eugenio (pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The Tale Of The Three Tinkers With Notes And A Glossary written by Eugenio (pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with categories.
The Killing Of The Tinkers
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Author : Ken Bruen
language : en
Publisher: Isis Large Print Books
Release Date : 2012
The Killing Of The Tinkers written by Ken Bruen and has been published by Isis Large Print Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
Back in Galway and back to his old drinking habits, Jack Taylor agrees to assist a gypsy in an investigation into the deaths of a number of members of the gypsy clan, deaths that the Guards, the Irish police, are reluctant to investigate.