The Chemistry of Tears - Hardcover

Carey, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571295355 ISBN 13: 9780571295357

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2012

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Praise for Peter Carey Two-time Winner of the Booker PrizeFinalist for the International Man Booker Prize Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' PrizeFive-time Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award "Carey is a master craftsman, a comedian of the first order, an artist with an uncanny gift for the invention of situations that are bizarre yet believable. And as a double Booker Prize winner he doesn't have to prove anything to anyone--he has a licence to enjoy himself, and he does." --"Irish Independent"" ""Peter Carey is a wily seducer, a mental acrobat who can bound across continents and centuries and make us believe in whatever world he has discovered and imagined." --Paul Auster "Carey is a writer I prize not only for his remarkable Dickensian plots but also for the brilliance of his style.... He is the most exuberant stylist at work in English today." --Edmund White, "Daily Telegraph"

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London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years - but as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private. Her employer at the museum, aware of Catherine's grief, gives her a special project - to piece together both the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary automaton, commissioned in the nineteenth century by Henry Brandling to amuse his dying son. 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.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571295355
• ISBN 13: 9780571295357
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288