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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir. His books have won or been shortlisted for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York.

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Title:: The Chemistry of Tears (MP3)
Written by:: Peter Carey
Read by:: Susan Lyons; Jefferson Mays
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 9 hours 32 minutes
MP3 size:: 398 MB
Published:: April 01 2012
Available Date:: April 28 2012
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781743106341
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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The latest offering from Peter Carey deals with grief and joyful discovery.

When Catherine's secret lover dies suddenly, she has nowhere to turn to except her work. A middle-aged curator in a London museum, Catherine is given a very particular project: 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 the diary of the man who commissioned the machine, she is partially rescued from one obsession by another - who was 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? The Chemistry of Tears is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving, a portrait of love and loss that is simultaneously delicate and anarchic.