Tinkers by Paul Harding 9 out of 10
Tinkers by Paul Harding 9 out of 10 This book might work as a litmus test, in the sense that most people would notice the marvelous aspects, after all, it has won The Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2010 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction - while others, such as this reader, while aware of the strong points, might still fail to absorb the bliss available beyond the depressing fact that the main character lies dying in a hospital bed, placed though in his own house, and once in a while we are reminded that he has this amount of time before his departure, then another, diminished interval – which is evidently interesting, creative, probably original – that serves to make the atmosphere gloomy around here… “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven...” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost…therefore it is so often the reader that creates a rather dark, negative background for an acclaimed novel like Tinkers, or rather filte...
