The O'Briens a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0307907090 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780307907097 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 p.)
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electronic resource - Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Families Canada Fiction |
Genre: | Electronic books. Wars stories. Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Homer Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | DIGITAL (Text) | 63797-1001 | Alaska Digital Library E-Book | Available | - |
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The O'Briens
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Summary
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. nbsp; 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. nbsp; 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.