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Pantheon
March 2012
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Featuring: Iseult O'Brien; Joe O'Brien
400 pages ISBN: 0307379930 EAN: 9780307379931 Kindle: B005IEH8MQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
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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