Behrens, Peter.

The O’Briens. A novel.

New York, Pantheon Books, 2011. 16 x 24 cm 384 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

The O’Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, tragic, ambitious clan.
In Joe O’Brien, backwoods boy, railroad magnate, 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 possibilities and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century. When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins in Venice-by-the-Sea, California, their courtship becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. The O’Briens is the story of a marriage and a family moving through the turbulence of history, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination. (Publisher)

• Keywords: American Literature
• Language: English
• ISBN: 978-0307379931
• Inventory Number: 100021AB

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