The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears
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Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9781742534527
ISBN-13 : 174253452X
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Chemistry of Tears by : Peter Carey

Download or read book The Chemistry of Tears written by Peter Carey and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 clockwork parts that constitute a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. It’s an object made of equal parts magic, love, madness and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age’s downfall. Once Catherine discovers the diary of the man who commissioned it, one obsession merges into another.


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