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First Published:
Jan 2009, 192 pages
Paperback:
Jan 2009, 192 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Stacey Brownlie
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George Crosby remembered many things as he died,
but in an order he could not control. To look at his life,
to take the stock he always imagined a man would at his
end, was to witness a shifting mass, the tiles of a mosaic
spinning, swirling, reportraying, always in recognizable
swaths of colors, familiar elements, molecular units,
intimate currents, but also independent now of his will,
showing him a different self every time he tried to make
an assessment.
Excerpted from Tinkers by Paul Harding. Copyright © 2008 by Paul Harding. Excerpted by permission of Bellevue Literary Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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