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Marisa's Rating: 4 Stars
Read this for the February KHOL radio show entitled "Judging a book by its cover" - I had no idea what I was in for when I started "Tinkers". The book mostly takes place within the mind of the dying George, as he thinks about his life and the life of his epileptic father, Howard, in Maine. Time is a huge theme in this book - with the narration moving backwards and forwards with beautiful fluidity. Harding obviously is a master ...more
Marisa's Rating: 4 Stars
Read this for the February KHOL radio show entitled "Judging a book by its cover" - I had no idea what I was in for when I started "Tinkers". The book mostly takes place within the mind of the dying George, as he thinks about his life and the life of his epileptic father, Howard, in Maine. Time is a huge theme in this book - with the narration moving backwards and forwards with beautiful fluidity. Harding obviously is a master ...more
Read this for the February KHOL radio show entitled "Judging a book by its cover" - I had no idea what I was in for when I started "Tinkers". The book mostly takes place within the mind of the dying George, as he thinks about his life and the life of his epileptic father, Howard, in Maine. Time is a huge theme in this book - with the narration moving backwards and forwards with beautiful fluidity. Harding obviously is a master craftsmen when it comes to word-smithing- so much of the descriptions
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