Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A lively week it is indeed for Elliott Bay and our friends at 1000 Fourth Avenue, also known as the Seattle Public Central Library. It keeps going, this evening with Paul Harding, the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his debut novel, Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press), a book that's been going into Elliott Bay reader hands like no other of recent months. (He and Stieg Larsson have had a close go of it ... and Stieg Larsson CAN'T come to Seattle.). This alert, moving narrative follows the last days and thoughts of a dying grandfather and repairer of clocks. "Tinkers is truly remarkable. It achieves and sustains a unique fusion of language and perception. Its fine touch plays over the textured richness of very modern lives, evoking again and again a frisson of deep recognition, a sense of primal encounter with the brilliant, elusive world of the senses. It confers on the reader the best privilege fiction can afford, the illusion of ghostly proximity to other human souls." - Marilynne Robinson. Free admission is on a first-come, first serve basis. The Microsoft Auditorium in the Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.