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Jan 1, 2012 · The Chemistry of Tears is the story of an horologist, Catherine Gehrig, who works in a small London museum. Her lover, Matthew, one of the museum other curators, has just died suddenly and she is distraught.
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482.5M. 288 pages ; 200 mm. An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the world are all brought to life in this haunting novel from one of the finest writers of our time. Access-restricted-item.
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.
A middle-aged curator in a London museum, Catherine is given a very particular project by the perceptive head of her department: a box of intricate clockwork parts that appear to be the remains of a nineteenth century automaton - a beautifully made mechanical bird.
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.
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