Paul Harding (5) (1967–)
Author of Tinkers
For other authors named Paul Harding, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Paul Harding has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches creative writing at Harvard. He lives in Georgetown, Massachusetts.
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- 1967
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- Paul Harding graduated from the University of Massachusetts and was a drummer for the band Cold Water Flat before earning his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has taught writing at Harvard and the University of Iowa. A 2010 Guggenheim fellow, Harding now lives near Boston with his wife and two sons, and is working on his second novel.
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It was ok. He still spins out way too much for me, though.
I know this is a good book but I didn't especially enjoy it. Too nebulous and abstract for me. But I will read his other one now.
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This novel presents a fictionalized account of the last inhabitants of Malaga Island off the coast of Maine. They were a mixed-race fully integrated society that lived a rustic, communal lifestyle until the government evicted them to build a resort. I was not aware of this horrific part of American History and the details are deeply disturbing, especially since they happened here in the 20th century. The writing was pastoral and full of Biblical imagery and Edoardo Ballerina (the narrator) is wonderful. I did have trouble keeping the characters and their relationships to other another straight, but it hardly matters for the plot. A good, short read.… (more)