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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
Jan 1, 2012 · The Chemistry of Tears. Peter Carey. 2.96. 4,162ratings727reviews. Kindle $5.99. 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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The novel The Chemistry of Tears (2012) by Australian author Peter Carey tells two parallel stories set in two different periods. In the first, an art restorer and horologist grieves the death of her longtime lover by piecing together a complex automaton, losing herself in the absorbing work.
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.
Apr 5, 2012 · Mad with grief, the usually controlled and rational Catherine discovers a series of handwritten notebooks telling the story of the man who originally commissioned the extraordinary and eerie automata she has been asked to bring back to life.
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Linked by the mysterious automaton, Catherine and Henry’s stories intertwine across time to explore the mysteries of life and death, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention and the body’s astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.
May 25, 2012 · For 13 years, Catherine has been Tindall’s mistress. He was older, married, a father, but the pair of them lived a blissful, secret life together. Now Tindall is gone — felled by a heart ...
