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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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Grieving the loss of her lover, Swinburne museum curator Catherine Gehrig is given a special project-- bring back to life an automaton whose original owner, 19th century Englishman Henry Brandling, was also confronted with the mystery of life and death. Access-restricted-item. true. Addeddate. 2021-08-02 07:01:06. Boxid. IA40200219. Camera.
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
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.
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.
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Who was Henry Brandling? Who was the mysterious, visionary clockmaker he hired to make a gift for his ailing son? And what was the end result that now sits in pieces in Catherine's studio? The...
