Tinkers Book

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room he sees the walls around him begin to collapse the windows come loose from their sashes and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings old photographs wool jackets rusty tools and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him followed by the stars till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating in death throes from cancer and kidney failure. A methodical repairer of clocks he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father an epileptic itinerant peddler whom he had lost seven decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him menacing and awe inspiring. Heartbreaking and life affirming TINKERS is an elegiac meditation on love loss and the fierce beauty of nature.Read More