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THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS. By Emma Brockes, The Guardian, Friday 16 March 2012. Peter Carey’s first thought was to write about engines. He had been reminiscing about his father’s car business, in a town called Sale inGippsland, Australia. When Carey was growing up, his father sold cars to local farmers, engines customised “to get them up the ...
12 de fev. de 2013 · The Chemistry of Tears (Vintage International) Paperback – February 12, 2013. 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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25 de jan. de 2012 · In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and the birth of the machine age. When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London’s Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project: a box of intricate ...
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 second is the story of that automaton’s ...
16 de mai. de 2012 · Peter Carey's dazzling new novel, The Chemistry of Tears, encompasses heartbreak, the comfort of absorbing work, the transformative power of beauty and the soul of an old machine.If you've never ...
Peter Carey is a voice man. He writes different voices very well, and puts them to good use in telling compelling stories. In The Chemistry Of Tears, Carey tells two interwoven stories - that of Catherine Gehrig, a modern day museum conservator grieving the loss of Matthew, her adulterous lover and that of Henry Brandling, a Victorian eccentric travelling to Germany to commission a clockwork ...
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