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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.
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The OâBriens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe OâBrienâgrandson of a potato-famine emigrant, and a backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soulâPeter 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.
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When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins in Venice, California, the story of their courtshipâtold in Behrensâs gorgeous, honed styleâbecomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. Husband and wife, brothers, sisters-in-law, children and grandchildren, the OâBriens engage unselfconsciously with their century, and we experience their times not as historical tableaux but as lives passionately lived. At the heart of this clanâat the heart of the novelâis mystery and madness grounded in the history of Irish sorrow. The OâBriens is the story of a man, a marriage, and a family, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.
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