The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey

The Chemistry of Tears

Peter Carey

229 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical literary challenging reflective slow-paced

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A Seattle Times Best Book of 2012When 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 s...

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