The Chemistry of Tears (Vintage International)
Peter Carey
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From Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 10 July 2006
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Chemistry of Tears (Vintage ...
Publisher: Vintage February 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Good
About this title
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. As she begins to piece the automaton together, Catherine also uncovers the diaries of Henry Brandling, who, more than a hundred years prior, had commissioned the bird for his very ill son. Catherine finds resonance and comfort in Henry's story. But it is the mechanical creature itself, in its uncanny imitation of life, that will link these two people across a century. Through the clockwork bird, Henry and Catherine will confront the mysteries of creation, the power of human invention, and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.
"Dazzling . . . encompasses heartbreak, the comfort of absorbing work, the transformative power of beauty and the soul of an old machine. . . . part historical, part fanciful, and completely wonderful." --Heller McAlpin, NPR
"Ambitious, playful and engagingly strange." --San Francisco Chronicle "Touching and thought-provoking." --The New York Times Book Review "Deeply moving. . . tells the story of the essential human desire to return to the individual Edens that we inhabited. . . . Beautifully told." --Nature "Characters that beguile and convince, prose that dances or is as careful as poetry, an inventive plot that teases and makes the heart quicken or hurt, paced with masterly precision, yet with a space for the ideas to breathe and expand in dialogue with the reader, unusual settings of place and time: this tender tour de force of the imagination succeeds on all fronts." --The Independent (London) "Carey is one of the finest living writers in English. His best books satisfy both intellectually and emotionally; he is lyrical yet never forgets the imperative to entertain. . . . A wholly enjoyable journey." --The Economist"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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