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Tinkers

Author : Paul Harding
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942658610

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Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. The story behind this New York Times bestselling debut novel—the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A Confederacy of Dunces received the award nearly thirty years before—is as extraordinary as the elegant prose within it. Inspired by his family’s history, Paul Harding began writing Tinkers when his rock band broke up. Following numerous rejections from large publishers, Harding was about to shelve the manuscript when Bellevue Literary Press offered a contract. After being accepted by BLP, but before it was even published, the novel developed a following among independent booksellers from coast to coast. Readers and critics soon fell in love, and it went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize, prompting the New York Times to declare the novel’s remarkable success “the most dramatic literary Cinderella story of recent memory.” That story is still being written as readers across the country continue to discover this modern classic, which has now sold over half a million copies, proving once again that great literature has a thriving and passionate audience. Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.

Tinker's Christmas

Author : Sandra Jones Cropsey
Publisher : C Works, LLC
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0965236889

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The clumsy elf Tinker becomes the chief mechanic for the Christmas Village Express and when the reindeer get sick a week before Christmas helps Santa deliver the toys on Christmas Eve.

Tinker's Plague

Author : Stephen B. Pearl
Publisher : Brain Lag
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928011125

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Oil reserves depleted. Society collapsed. A few places cling to modern technology. For everywhere else, there are the Tinkers. In southern Ontario, Novo Gaia uses sustainable energy to support its citizens in comfort. From there, Novo Gaia sends Doctors of Applied General Technology, tinkers, into the Dark Lands to install everything from solar stills to televisions—and make a profit. Brad Cooper is a tinker on his route in Guelph when he finds himself at the epicentre of a plague outbreak. Stranded without support in a tenuously-held quarantine zone, he must use his limited medical training in a desperate search for a treatment against an insidious relic from an age of excess. Meanwhile, fuelled by panic, other townspeople caught within the quarantine zone conspire to sabotage relief efforts. Distrusted by the people he's trying to help, hampered by political rivals, under-supplied, over-worked, and with his own risk of infection increasing, Brad seems to be fighting a losing battle as the casualties mount...

Tinker's Sea

Author : Stephen B. Pearl
Publisher : Brain Lag
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928011156

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Oil reserves depleted. Society collapsed. A few places cling to modern technology. For everywhere else, there are the Tinkers. In southern Ontario, Novo Gaia uses sustainable energy to support its citizens in comfort. From there, Novo Gaia sends Doctors of Applied General Technology, tinkers, into the Dark Lands to install everything from solar stills to televisions—and make a profit. After twenty years as an E.R. nurse, Tabitha “Tabby” Drivensky’s failing marriage sent her into the tinker program and the open waters of the Great Lakes. While fulfilling her Coast Guard service obligation, she rescues a boy named Andy Camble from a sinking ship. Andy turns out to have vital information on Packer, a pirate captain who has been plaguing the Great Lakes for generations in an ancient, nuclear-powered submarine. Using Andy’s intelligence, Tabby sets out ostensibly to scout out a new aquatic tinker route along Lake Huron but secretly assigned by Novo Gaia to find and put an end to Packer once and for all.

A Tinker's Damn!

Author : Pierce Kelley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595486038

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"Pierce Kelley's best work yet! Readers will sympathize with Kevin Coffee's dilemma, even as they hope never to meet him in person. His story makes it clear how the handicaps of poverty and persecution are powerful inducements to amoral behavior. Kelley's attention to legal and technical details shines, as always." -Jenna McKenna, Editor, Cedar Key Beacon Kevin Coffee becomes a thief at a young age in order to survive after his father leaves him, his mother and three siblings to fend for themselves in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. As an adult, he moves to Miami Beach and becomes a drug smuggler. He meets members of the IRA and supplies them with guns. With their help, he finds his father, who is a Tinker in Ireland. He falls in love with Maeve Connelly, a member of a radical splinter group of the IRA. When Kevin is arrested and seems headed for prison, despite the best lawyering Siobhan O'Sullivan can provide, he decides to flee and hide out with Maeve on a remote island off the northwest coast of Ireland . after a bank heist and one last gun deal.

The Tinker's Wedding

Author : J. M. Synge
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547305477

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The Tinker's Wedding by J. M. Synge Pdf

The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play by the Irish playwright J. M. Synge, whose main characters are Irish Tinkers. This absurd play follows an Irish wedding in which Sarah Casey convinces Michael Byrne to marry her after purchasing a local priest's services with ten shillings and a tin can. Excerpt: "We should not go to the theatre as we go to a chemist's, or a dram-shop, but as we go to a dinner, where the food we need is taken with pleasure and excitement."

'Tinkers'

Author : Mary Burke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191570612

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The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J.M. Synge's influential The Tinker's Wedding was pivotal to this 'Irishing' of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure's cosmopolitan textual roots. Synge's empathetic depiction is closely examined, as are the many subsequent representations that looked to him as a model to subvert or emulate. In contrast to their Revival-era romanticization, post-independence writing portrayed tinkers as alien interlopers, while contemporaneous Unionists labelled them a contaminant from the hostile South. However, after Travellers politicized in the 1960s, more even-handed depictions heralded a querying of the 'tinker' fantasy that has shaped contemporary screen and literary representations of Travellers and has prompted Traveller writers to transubstantiate Otherness into the empowering rhetoric of ethnic difference. Though its Irish equivalent has oscillated between idealization and demonization, US racial history facilitates the cinematic figuring of the Irish-American Traveler as lovable 'white trash' rogue. This process is informed by the mythology of a population with whom Travelers are allied in the white American imagination, the Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots). In short, the 'tinker' is much more central to Irish, Northern Irish and even Irish-American identity than is currently recognised.

Tinker

Author : Wen Spencer
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618244048

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Move Over, Buffy! Tinker Not Only Kicks Supernatural Butt Shes a Techie Genius, Too! Inventor, girl genius Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA, the Elven Interdimensional Agency, technology smugglers and a college-minded Xenobiologist as she tries to stay focused on whats really important her first date. Armed with an intelligence the size of a planet, steel toed boots, and a junk yard dog attitude, Tinker is ready to kick butt to get her first kiss. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Each and every character is fascinating, extraordinarily well-developed, and gets right under your skin. . . . A terrific, memorable story." ¾Julie E. Czerneda, author of In the Company of Others "Spencer takes her readers on a fast-paced journey into disbelief. [Her] timing is impeccable and the denouement stunning." ¾Romantic Times (four-star review) "This novel [Alien Taste] is keeper-shelf material." ¾BookBrowser "Wonderfully inventive . . . a fun protagonist." ¾Locus

Tinker

Author : High 5 Adventure Learning Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Experiential learning
ISBN : 099607922X

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Poetry and a Fifth Grade Cinderella

Author : Pyrtle Second Graders
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781491749630

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Poetry and a Fifth Grade Cinderella by Pyrtle Second Graders Pdf

These just a few examples of the many stories we created this year. We will remember all of the good times in second grade and in Writing Circle when we read these stories. Maybe a few of us will grow up to be published writers some day!

Tinker's Leave

Author : Maurice Baring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036958499

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Tinker's Chicks

Author : Kristie Burrill
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781514476444

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Book 2 is the continuing saga of Tinker's Chicks from Book 1. The chickens are more independent, causing some anxious moments and unusual problems, but remain under Tinkers watchful eye. While selecting a nest, the chickens become very competitive because they all prefer the same nest. Tinker intervenes with words of wisdom and teaches them that it's more fun to share than to fight over something you want.

Tinker in Television

Author : Grant Tinker,Bud Rukeyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032612767

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Tinker in Television by Grant Tinker,Bud Rukeyser Pdf

The quintessential insider's account of network television, from the man who founded the industry's most successful independent production company, MTM Enterprises, then rescued a struggling NBC. Leaving an indelible imprint on American TV, Tinker's triumphs, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, proved that profitability need not preclude quality programming. Photos.