2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
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 to the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
"Tinkers is truly remarkable... It confers on the reader the best privilege fiction can afford, the illusion of ghostly proximity to other human souls."--Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Home "and "Gilead"
Tinkers
Tinkers
$19.95 – Paperback book / Windmill
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Tinkers
$21.95 – Paperback book /
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
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 of... Buy or find out more →
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2010
Tinkers
$21.95 – Paperback book /
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
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 of... Buy or find out more →
Versed
$36.95 – Hardcover book / Wesleyan Univ Press
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry.
A double collection from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation.
In recent years, Armantrout's reputation has soared-she began in the '70s as an obscure, early practition... Buy or find out more →
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
$56.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.
Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, cr... Buy or find out more →
Lords Of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
$29.95 – Paperback book / Arrow
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for History
Samuel Johnson shortlisted & FT/Goldman Sachs WINNER: a vivid, dramatic account of the four men whose personal and professional actions led to the world economic collapse of the... Buy or find out more →
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
$51.95 – Hardcover book / Delta Dell
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Non-Fiction
This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and... Buy or find out more →
Paul Harding
Tinkers
$19.95 – Paperback book / Windmill
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Tinkers
$21.95 – Paperback book /
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
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 of... Buy or find out more →