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The Chemistry of Tears
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Hamish Hamilton/Penquin, 2012
ISBN 10: 1926428153
ISBN 13: 9781926428154
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed & inscribed by Peter Carey to the previous owner on the title page. 1st Australian edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 99451
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The Chemistry of Tears
Published by
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ISBN 10: 1926428153
ISBN 13: 9781926428154
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Seller: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, Australia
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Secondhand, Hardback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Peter Carey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. The long affair had been kept secret from their colleagues at London's Swinburne Museum and now she must grieve in private. Or almost. In an act of compassion, the head of her department gives Catherine a very particular project, something to cling onto- a box of intricate clockwork parts that appear to be the remains of a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. Once she discovers that the box also contains the diary of the man who commissioned the machine, one obsession merges into another. Who was Henry Brandling? Who was the mysterious, visionary clockmaker he hired to make a gift for his ailing son? And what was the end result that now sits in pieces in Catherine's studio? The Chemistry of Tears is a portrait of love and loss that is both wildly entertaining and profoundly moving, simultaneously delicate and anarchic. At its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breathe such life into - an object made of equal parts magic, love, madness and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age's downfall. 'The Chemistry of Tears - alive with the vivid evocation of place and period that is always Carey's forte - juxtaposes love for a dead partner with love for a dying son . . . A novel by one of the present day's most unconventionally creative writers. Oddball characters are propelled along zigzagging narrative channels, connections made with whimsical aplomb. As always, too, everything is burnished with vitalisingly poetic images. The Chemistry of Tears isn't only about life and inventiveness- it overflows with them.' Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times 'Audacious yet restrained, tender yet sardonic, and filled with moments of emotional complexity . . . A beautifully elegiac hymn to lost love.' Patrick Arlington, Australian Book Review 'Masterly historical fiction that both talks about now, and makes the past seem immediate . . . I loved this book for its mysteries, its hinted back stories, its reserve, and its underlying complexity.' Lucy Daniel, Daily Telegraph 'A master-class of writing and human insight is to be found in Peter Carey's new novel with its thrillingly off-kilter focus . . . There is so much powerful human emotion rising from the pages.' Liam Heylin, Irish Examiner 'The Chemistry of Tears is yet another triumph for its creator, breath-catchingly beautiful and tender in places, with strange and shocking revelations slowly revealed.' Camilla Pia, The List ' Carey remains a writer with an unerring sense for the perverse in human affairs. The continual and guilty delight of these early sections, the funniest, most cutting and anarchic, is that they acknowledge what we know to be true but dare not say- grief gives delirious licence to all those behaviours we otherwise hold in check.' Geordie Williamson, Weekend Australian 'Peter Carey's is an intricately constructed narrative, with its tender, astringent reflections on the nature of love and mortality, human ingenuity and human destructiveness . . . The fine bloom on his writing, the sharp, green bite of emotion and the pellucid observation seem entirely unaffected by success and a (well-deserved) place in the modern canon.' Jane Shilling and David Sexton, London Evening Standard 'This is a comic novel . . . but it's also a serious examination of love and loss and grief and obsession and how we manage to keep going even when all clocks have stopped.' Stephen Romei, The Spectator (Australia). Secondhand, Hardback. Seller Inventory # 9781926428154-SECONDHAND
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The Chemistry of Tears
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Penguin Books Australia, 2012
ISBN 10: 1926428153
ISBN 13: 9781926428154
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Hardback. 1. The Chemistry of Tears is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving, a portrait of love and loss that is simultaneously delicate and anarchic. At its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breath such life into - an object made of equal parts magic, art and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age's downfall. When Catherine's lover dies suddenly, she has no one to turn to - their affair had been disguised from their colleagues and his family - except her work. A middle-aged curator in a London museum, Catherine is given a very particular project by the perceptive head of her department: a box of intricate clockwork parts that appear to be the remains of a nineteenth century automaton - a beautifully made mechanical bird. When she discovers that the box also contains the diary of the man who commissioned the machine, she is partially rescued from one obsession by another - who were Henry Brandling and the mysterious, visionary clockmaker he hired to make a gift for his absent son? And what was the end result that now sits in pieces in her studio? 2012. First edition, first printing. A very good copy with light rubbing of the board edges, lightly tanned pages and a small area of remnant paper affixed to the front free endpaper. The d/w is fine. Seller Inventory # 24453573
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Hardcover (Printed Boards). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 270 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781926428154. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 33273. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right. Seller Inventory # 33273
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The Chemistry of Tears
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Hamish Hamilton - Penguin Books, Camberwell, 2012
ISBN 10: 1926428153
ISBN 13: 9781926428154
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Hard Cover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F-. First Edition. F/F-. 8vo. original pictorial grey boards (paperstock a trifle toned) in unpriced dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed, tiny discreet silverfish track to lower panel); pp. [vi (last blank)], 272 (last blank). A near fine copy. Seller Inventory # 026496
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The Chemistry of Tears.
Published by
Hamish Hamilton, Melbourne, 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1926428153
ISBN 13: 9781926428154
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Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Signed by the author. Octavo. 269pp. Original black marbled boards with white spine titles. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st edition, 1st impression Australian edition. Seller Inventory # C218960
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