At the time Paul Harding’s Tinkers won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 it had only sold about 1,120 copies, according to Publisher's Weekly. Since then, more than 360,000 trade paperback copies have been purchased.
"The weekly spike is also astounding: in the week before the announcement, Tinkers sold only 40 copies. The next week, immediately following its Pulitzer victory, it sold 1,042 copies, doubling its total sales in a seven-day span. The following week, sales continued to climb, reaching 6,131 copies, and weekly sales remained steady around 5,000 until January 2011, 10 months after it won the Pulitzer," the trade magazine reports.
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