{"product_id":"tinkers","title":"Tinkers","description":"Pulitzer Prize Winner and New York Times Bestseller  There are few perfect debut American novels. . . . To this list ought to be added Paul Hardings devastating first book  Tinkers. . . . Harding has written a masterpiece. NPR  In Paul Hardings stunning first novel  we find what readers  writers and reviewers live for. San Francisco Chronicle  Tinkers is truly remarkable. Marilynne Robinson  Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Home  Gilead  and Housekeeping  An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren  George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness  back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As the clock repairers time winds down  his memories intertwine with those of his father  an epileptic  itinerant peddler and his grandfather  a Methodist preacher beset by madness. At once heartbreaking and life affirming  Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love  loss  illness  faith  and the fierce beauty of nature.  Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers and Enon. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop  Harvard University  and Grinnell College. He now lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two sons.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44909619085365,"sku":"ByrdShop_1934137197","price":77.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1934137197_e2592dca-4f63-4124-9b78-0de1ab171d75.jpg?v=1770144587","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tinkers","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}