Books by Peter Behrens and Complete Book Reviews

The Law of Dreams
The Law of Dreams
Peter Behrens, Author . Steerforth $26.95 (394p) ISBN 978-1-58642-117-5
Screenwriter Behrens follows his 1987 story collection, Night Driving , with an ambitious epic that follows a hapless wee lad from the rotten potato fields of 1847 Ireland to a New England horse ranch. Fergus O'Brien, the teenage son of a tenant
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The O’Briens
The O’Briens
Peter Behrens. Pantheon, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-307-37993-1
Afamily saga spans the 20th century, from Pontiac County, Quebec, to Venice Beach, Calif., and beyond, through two world wars and countless intimate tragedies, in Behrens’s powerful second novel (after The Law of Dreams). Joe O’Brien, the eldest of...
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Carry Me
Carry Me
Peter Behrens. Pantheon, $28.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-101-87049-5
Behrens (The Law of Dreams) grounds his bittersweet escape-from-the-Nazis love story in seascapes, landscapes, and cityscapes, showing how culture and geography shape lives and determine character. The novel consists of Billy Lange’s diary, along...
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