04440cam a2200949 4500 435464635 TxAuBib 20200703120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307907097 0307907090 B005IEH8MQ Amazon 291a6fde-c146-4593-b1cb-d7c6b17d4864 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 212113 637116 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Behrens, Peter. The O'Briens [Bridges eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2484kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. realistic fiction books. American Literature. Historical Romance. realistic fiction. literary fiction. american history. magical realism. Science Fiction. relationships. Short Stories. fiction books. books fiction. World War II. 19th Century. family life. World War 2. horse books. Friendship. Historical. love story. literature. Victorian. Civil War. americana. Identity. Adoption. Thriller. feminism. survival. Animals. romance. Fiction. classic. mystery. fantasy. family. novels. Modern. Horses. crime. Drama. Saga. love. Epic. WWII. War. ww2. HTML:<p>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 <i>The Law of Dreams.</i><br /> <br /> <i>The O'Briens</i> 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.<br /> <br /> 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. <i>The O'Briens</i> is the story of a man, a marriage, and a family, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.</p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Romance. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-09-02 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/291/A6F/DE/OBriensANovel9780307907097.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=291A6FDE-C146-4593-B1CB-D7C6B17D4864&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/291/A6F/DE/OBriensANovel9780307907097.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=291A6FDE-C146-4593-B1CB-D7C6B17D4864&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/291/A6F/DE/OBriensANovel9780307907097.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=291A6FDE-C146-4593-B1CB-D7C6B17D4864&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)