β Scribed by Peter Behrens
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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.
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