The O'Briens

Peter Behrens

Mar 2012 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Paul Hecht

About this audiobook

The O' Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O' Brien-- backwoods boy, railroad magnate, brooding soul-- Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man 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, their courtship becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. The O' Briens is the story of a marriage and a family moving through the turbulence of history, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.

Ratings and reviews

we were told by ancestry that we are related to King Patrick of ireland my gr gr gr grand dad wad Patrick James O'Brien and from clair and Brian Brogue are invited for a reunion and there are hundreds of us is there a O'Brien castle ??? i do not know if i spelled his name right