Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday: The O'Briens



"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.



The O'Briens by Peter Behrens

Pantheon, March 6, 2012

Synopsis:

An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family.

The O’Briens is a family story unlike any you have read, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O’Brien—backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soul—Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling character 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, the story of their courtship—told in Behrens’s gorgeous, honed style—becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. The O’Briens is the story of a marriage and a family moving through history—from the first flying machines, through two world wars, to the election of JFK—told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.

What are you "waiting on" this Wednesday?

5 comments:

  1. SOUNDS INTERESTING.
    Here is my WOW:
    http://ratherbarefoot.blogspot.com/2012/01/wating-endlessly-on-wednesday.html

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  2. I love that time period - I bet that book is great!

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  3. haven't heard of that one before!

    stop by my post? I have a giveaway! :)

    http://lindsaycummingsblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/giveaway-tooth-and-nail-wow.html

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  4. Thanks! 1st US review: Peter Behren’s THE O’BRIENS is a graceful and violent epic, “a piece of rough beauty.” Starred http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-307-37993-1

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  5. Invitation: Peter Behrens launches his new novel, The O'Briens. Tuesday, March 6th 2012 at 7:30pm. at The Irish Arts Center, 553 West 51st Street.
    www.irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/ne.theobriens

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