{"product_id":"tinkers-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Tinkers (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHARDING, Paul.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTinkers.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design and lettering to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 191 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePaul Harding (b. 1967) grew up in Wenham, Massachusetts, and played drums in the indie rock band Cold Water Flat for much of his twenties before turning to fiction. He wrote \u003cem\u003eTinkers\u003c\/em\u003e over a number of years and submitted it to every major publisher in New York, receiving uniform rejections. He was on the point of putting the manuscript away when Bellevue Literary Press — an independent imprint affiliated with the New York University School of Medicine, founded to publish work at the intersection of literature and medicine — accepted it. The first print run was modest. Before the book was even published, it developed a devoted following among independent booksellers. Readers and critics fell in love with it, and it went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize, prompting the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e to declare the novel's remarkable success \"the most dramatic literary Cinderella story of recent memory.\" It was the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since \u003cem\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/em\u003e received the award in 1981. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/book-search\/title\/robin-hood-and-the-men-of-the-greenwood\/author\/henry-gilbert\/\" class=\"group\/tag relative h-[18px] rounded-full inline-flex items-center overflow-hidden -translate-y-px cursor-pointer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative transition-colors h-full max-w-[180px] overflow-hidden px-1.5 inline-flex items-center font-small rounded-full border-0.5 border-border-300 bg-bg-200 group-hover\/tag:bg-accent-900 group-hover\/tag:border-accent-100\/60\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-nowrap text-text-300 break-all truncate font-normal group-hover\/tag:text-text-200\"\u003eAbeBooks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"transition-all opacity-[0%] h-[17px] absolute right-[0.5px] inline rounded-r-full flex items-center px-1.5 bg-gradient-to-r from-accent-900\/0 via-accent-900\/100 via-30% to-accent-900\/100 group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%]\"\u003e\u003csvg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" fill=\"currentColor\" viewbox=\"0 0 256 256\" class=\"transition-all group-hover\/tag:ease-out duration-[500ms] ease-in text-accent-100 group-hover\/tag:scale-[100%] scale-[80%] group-hover\/tag:opacity-[100%] opacity-[0%] -mr-[2px]\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M200,64V168a8,8,0,0,1-16,0V83.31L69.66,197.66a8,8,0,0,1-11.32-11.32L172.69,72H88a8,8,0,0,1,0-16H192A8,8,0,0,1,200,64Z\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGeorge Washington Crosby is dying at home, surrounded by his family, hallucinating as his brain chemistry alters in the approach of death. \u003cem\u003eTinkers\u003c\/em\u003e takes place in the space of those hallucinations — a temporal and psychological space in which George's own memories blur into the memories of his father, Howard Aaron Crosby, an epileptic tinker who travelled the back roads of rural Maine in the early twentieth century selling household goods from a mule-drawn cart. Howard's epilepsy was a source of shame and terror in his community; his consciousness, during seizures, opened onto visions that the novel renders with great delicacy. He eventually abandoned his wife and children rather than be committed to an institution. George grew up without him and spent his working life repairing clocks — attending to the mechanisms by which time is measured and made legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel is 191 pages long and reads like a meditation rather than a narrative: a sustained inquiry into the relationship between consciousness and time, fathers and sons, the visible surface of a life and the invisible interior that shaped it. Harding's prose — dense, lyrical, attentive to the physical world in the manner of the great American naturalist writers — makes demands of its reader and rewards them accordingly. His second novel, \u003cem\u003eThis Other Eden\u003c\/em\u003e (2023), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, confirming the achievement of \u003cem\u003eTinkers\u003c\/em\u003e as the beginning of a significant career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine. \u003c\/strong\u003eA few spots to upper edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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