Tinkers (Signed)
New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
First Paperback Edition. Paperback.
Signed by the author on the title page. First paperback edition, first printing. The author's first novel and winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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.
Tinkers is the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A Confederacy of Dunces received the award in 1981. 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."
Item #901160ISBN: 9781934137123
5 x 7-3/8", stiff pictorial wrappers, 191pp.
A fine, bright unread copy, clean of owner’s marks.
Price: $125.00