Description

A classic man lies dying. Propped-Up in his family room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out-of awareness, back once again to the discomfort and question of his impoverished youth in Maine. His recollections connect with those of his grandpa, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his father, whilst the clock repairer’s period winds along, a Methodist preacher beset by chaos. At the same time sad and life-affirming, Tinkers is definitely an elegiac meditation on disease, loss, love, religion, and the intense beauty of character.