TINKERS

"Tinkers is truly remarkable. It achieves and sustains a unique fusion of language and perception. Its fine touch plays over the textured richnesses of very modest lives, evoking again and again a frisson of deep recognition, a sense of primal encounter with the brilliant, elusive world of the senses. It confers on the reader the best privilege fiction can afford, the illusion of ghostly proximity to other human souls." Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Home "Tinkers is not just a novel _ though it is a brilliant novel. It´s an instruction manual on how to look at nearly everything.Read this book and marvel."Elizabeth McCracken "Tinkers is a remarkable piece of work." Barry Unsworth