- Robots, Women museum curators, Fiction, London (england), fiction
London, 2010. Grieving the loss of her lover, Swinburne museum curator Catherine Gehrig is given a special project--bring back to life an automaton whose original owner, 19th century Englishman Henry Brandling, was also confronted with the mystery of life and death.
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Grave, classical in form, intimate and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Peter Carey
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Faber & Faber, Limited, Random House Canada
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780307361479
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Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for *Oscar and Lucinda,* and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for *True History of the Kelly Gang.* He has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
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