This Pulitzer prize winning novel, while beautifully written with some wonderful imagery, juuuust didn't keep me interested. Maybe because it's the middle of summer and I had just finished the last of the 'Dragoon Tattoo' books. It's almost like my kids crashing from an extreme sugar high. Up up, then the fall, which isn't all that much fun.
Tinkers is the story of an old man who lays dying. In his last hours his mind goes back to his childhood as the son of a tinker, a man who sold wares from the back of a wagon to the neighboring countryside. Interspersed is his own life as a clockmaker. There is some wonderful imagery of nature here as well as heartbreaking family love and loss but I just found myself waiting for it to be over.
Maybe i wasn't able to appreciate the book because the next one on my list is one I look forward to with great glee!...
"To Kill a Mockingbird"...
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