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The O'Briens : a novel / Peter Behrens.
LIBRA PR9199.3.B3769 O27 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Behrens, Peter, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Canada--Fiction.
- Families.
- Irish.
- Immigrants.
- Canada.
- Immigrants--Canada--Fiction.
- Irish--Canada--Fiction.
- Canada--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Wars stories.
- Fiction.
- War stories.
- Physical Description:
- 384 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- "A family saga spanning half a century in the lives of a restless and ambitious clan starts with the story of backwoods youth-turned-railroad magnate Joe O'Brien, who after leaving the Canadian wilds and sharing a passionate courtship with Iseult, becomes the patriarch of a family that sees the first airplanes, two world wars and the election of JFK. By the award-winning author of The Law of Dreams"--From publisher.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Toronto, Canada : House of Anansi Press, 2011.
- ISBN:
- 9780307379931
- 0307379930
- OCLC:
- 744975985
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