Paul Harding
1) Tinkers
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
191 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...