The Law of Dreams [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Behrens, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0812978005 ISBN 13: 9780812978001

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2007

Riassunto

After witnessing the deaths of his family during the mid-nineteenth-century Irish Potato Famine, Fergus O'Brien leaves Ireland in search of a new life, making his way to Liverpool, Wales, and finally across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States, in a histroical novel based on the author's own family history. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Absorbing, unsparing, and beautifully written . . . [a] masterly novel.”
–The New York Times Book Review

“Stunningly lyric . . . a work of richly empathetic imagination that reminds us once again of how powerful historical fiction can be in skilled hands.”
–Los Angeles Times

“Superb . . . an emotional epic bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own.”
–Jonathan Lethem, author of You Don’t Love Me Yet

“Extraordinary . . . a novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush.”
–The Washington Post Book World

“Sprawling, cinematic, exquisitely detailed, exactingly researched, and keenly felt . . . a powerful work of excavation that achieves what historical fiction often can’t–credibility, along with a sense of the transportive.”
–Boston Phoenix

“Riveting . . . Behrens turns the archetypal immigrant’s journey into Homeric epic.”
–The Providence Journal

“A beautifully written, poetically inspired tale of heroism, love, yes and sex, and the triumph of the human spirit.”
–Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming

L'autore:

Peter Behrens's first novel, The Law of Dreams, won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s most prestigious book prize, and has been published in nine languages. The New York Times Book Review called his second novel, The O’Briens, “a major accomplishment.” He is also the author of the novel Carry Me and two collections of short stories, Night Driving and Travelling Light. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many anthologies. Awards he has received include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University. A native of Montreal, he is currently a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0812978005
• ISBN 13: 9780812978001
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 401