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The Chemistry of Tears is a 2012 novel by Australian author Peter Carey . Plot summary. Catherine Gehrig is a middle-aged horologist working in "the Georgian halls" of the Swinburne Museum, London SW1. For the last 13 years she has been in love with her married colleague, Matthew Tindall, and when he dies suddenly she is distraught.
- Peter Carey
- 2012
1 de ene. de 2012 · The Chemistry of Tears. Peter Carey. 2.96. 4,125 ratings724 reviews. When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover’s sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to “life” a nineteenth-century mechanical bird.
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About The Chemistry of Tears. A Seattle Times Best Book of 2012 When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover’s sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to “life” a nineteenth-century mechanical bird.
- Paperback
25 de may. de 2012 · “The Chemistry of Tears” takes risks, is quietly ambitious and is, in its last pages, both touching and thought-provoking.
But it is the automaton itself, in its beautiful, uncanny imitation of life, that links Henry's life to Catherine's, as both are confronted with the miracle and catastrophe of human...
The Chemistry Of Tears is split between the story of Catherine Gehrig, a museum curator in present-day London, and the 19th-century man whose mechanical swan, modelled on the Vaucanson, sits on her desk, waiting to be reassembled.
15 de may. de 2012 · Set during the Gulf oil crisis and reminiscent of The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) in its linkage of a rescued automaton and loneliness, Carey’s gripping, if at times overwrought, fable raises provocative questions about life, death, and memory and our power to create and destroy.
