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"Tinkers" by Paul Harding
“Tinkers (2009) is the first novel by American author Paul Harding. The novel tells the tale of George Washington Crosby, a clock repairman, who recounts his life story and his father's struggles with epilepsy to his family on his deathbed.
Taken from wikipedia.
See also:
http://www.tinkerspulitzer.com/
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/the-one-that-got-away/
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Tinker / Paul Harding. — London: Windmill Books, 2011. — 191 p.; 20cm
2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
ISBN 978-0-099-53804-2
PS3608.A72535 T56 2011
R. 98069