The O'Briens

By Peter Behrens

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307744388
• ISBN13: 9780307744388
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"