Tinkers

About this book

An old man 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.

Subjects

• dementia
• fathers
• fathers and sons
• fathers and sons, fiction
• fiction
• fictional works
• fiction, psychological
• identify crisis
• identity (psychology) in old age
• literature
• new york times bestseller
• nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2010-04-25
• nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2010-05-09
• patients
• psychology
• reminiscing in old age