All these come together to tell a compelling story. His memories with his wife Annie, and the incredible friendship that Annie, Michael and he shared. His relationship with his best friend, and lover for a brief while, Michael. Memories of his childhood and his father’s open defiance to his wanting to do art. Most notable among these is the replica of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers that his mother, Dora won in an act of defiance during a Christmas raffle years ago. Most of this half is told through the memories Ellis has when he revisits places and objects from his past. He is lonely to the point of suffocation, and has hallucinatory visions of his departed wife at times. Tin Man unfolds in two halves, the first from the perspective of 46-year-old widower Ellis, who works at a car plant smoothing out dents. Tin Man by Sarah Winman is precisely that. If a book can be all that, even after the last page is flipped over, and continue being that long after, that is the measure of a well written book. One that provides solace to solitude, pleasure to pain and an escape to entrapment.
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