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The O'Briens

An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family, from the author of the acclaimed novel The Law of Dreams.?The O?Briens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O?Brien?grandson of a potato-famine emigrant, and a backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soul?Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling riches and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century.?When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins in Venice, California, the story of their courtship?told in Behrens?s gorgeous, honed style?becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. Husband and wife, brothers, sisters-in-law, children and grandchildren, the O?Briens engage unselfconsciously with their century, and we experience their times not as historical tableaux but as lives passionately lived. At the heart of this clan?at the heart of the novel?is mystery and madness grounded in the history of Irish sorrow. The O?Briens is the story of a man, a marriage, and a family, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.

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  • ""THE O'BRIENS follows the family from THE LAW OF DREAMS (Governor General's Literary Award-winner) two generations later: Joe O'Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. After escaping the poverty of Pontiac, Joe travels the continent, building an empire and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, but he is never quite able to leave his past behind. Told from the perspective of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is an epic of great heart, imagination and narrative force."--Publisher."
  • "An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family, from the author of the acclaimed novel The Law of Dreams.?The O?Briens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O?Brien?grandson of a potato-famine emigrant, and a backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soul?Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling riches and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century.?When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins in Venice, California, the story of their courtship?told in Behrens?s gorgeous, honed style?becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. Husband and wife, brothers, sisters-in-law, children and grandchildren, the O?Briens engage unselfconsciously with their century, and we experience their times not as historical tableaux but as lives passionately lived. At the heart of this clan?at the heart of the novel?is mystery and madness grounded in the history of Irish sorrow. The O?Briens is the story of a man, a marriage, and a family, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination."@en
  • "The O'Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O'Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his brothers and sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building an empire and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, he is never quite able to leave his past behind. Told from the perspectives of Joe."@en
  • ""THE O'BRIENS follows the family from THE LAW OF DREAMS (Governor General's Literary Award-winner) two generations later: Joe O'Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. After escaping the poverty of Pontiac, Joe travels the continent, building an empire and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, but he is never quite able to leave his past behind. Told from the perspective of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is an epic of great heart, imagination and narrative force."--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • ""A family saga spanning half a century in the lives of a restless and ambitious clan starts with the story of backwoods youth-turned-railroad magnate Joe O'Brien, who after leaving the Canadian wilds and sharing a passionate courtship with Iseult, becomes the patriarch of a family that sees the first airplanes, two world wars and the election of JFK. By the award-winning author of The Law of Dreams"--From publisher."
  • ""A family saga spanning half a century in the lives of a restless and ambitious clan starts with the story of backwoods youth-turned-railroad magnate Joe O'Brien, who after leaving the Canadian wilds and sharing a passionate courtship with Iseult, becomes the patriarch of a family that sees the first airplanes, two world wars and the election of JFK. By the award-winning author of The Law of Dreams"--Publisher."

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  • "Wars stories"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Roman canadien de langue anglaise"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"

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  • "Les O'Brien"
  • "Les O'Brien : roman"
  • "The O'Briens"
  • "The O'Briens"@en
  • "Les O'Brien roman"
  • "The O'Briens : a novel"@en
  • "The O'Briens : a novel"
  • "The O'Briens a novel"
  • "The O'Briens a novel"@en

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