Título: Tinkers: 10th Anniversary Edition
Autor: Paul Harding
Sinopse: Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel―featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside
In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with 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.
The story behind this New York Times bestselling debut novel―the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A Confederacy of Dunces received the award nearly thirty years before―is as extraordinary as the elegant prose within it. 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.”
That story is still being written as readers across the country continue to discover this modern classic, which has now sold over half a million copies, proving once again that great literature has a thriving and passionate audience.
Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Tinkers: 10th Anniversary Edition”, de Paul Harding, publicado pela editora Bellevue Literary Press, em 2019 e com 208 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Bellevue Literary Press
Páginas: 208
Ano: 2019-01-01
Edição: Anniversary
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1942658605
ISBN13: 9781942658603
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Bellevue Literary Press oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas densas que exploram a complexidade da condição humana em contextos históricos e pessoais. Muitas obras trazem personagens enfrentando adversidades como guerras, doenças e dilemas éticos, com um tom que oscila entre a reflexão profunda e a tensão psicológica. O catálogo privilegia textos que mesclam um ritmo contemplativo com momentos de intensidade emocional, frequentemente ambientados em cenários que vão desde o ambiente natural rigoroso até o interior da mente humana. A linguagem costuma ser elaborada, com atenção a detalhes que evocam imagens vívidas e contrastes entre luz e sombra, memória e presente.
