Excerpt from Tinkers, Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Paul Harding writes: As a Yankee in North Shore horse country, he knew where the old money lay, dozing, dreaming of wool mills and slate quarries, ticker tape and foxhunts. He found that bankers paid well to keep their balky heirlooms telling time. He could replace the worn tooth on a strike wheel by hand.