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- The Law of Dreams: A Novel
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- 9781586421175
- Book Title
- Law of Dreams
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- Steerforth Press
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- 2006
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- English
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- Fiction
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- Literary, Historical
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The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man's epic passage from innocence to experience during The Great Famine in Ireland of 1847. On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to the Boston states, Fergus is initiated to violence, sexual heat, and the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution. Along the way, he meets an unforgettable generation of boy soldiers, brigands, street toughs and charming, willful girls - all struggling for survival in the aftermath of natural catastrophe magnified by political callousness and brutal neglect. Peter Behrens transports the reader to another time and place for a deeply-moving and resonant experience. The Law of Dreams is gorgeously written in incandescent language that unleashes the sexual and psychological energies of a lost world while plunging the reader directly into a vein of history that haunts the ancestral memory of millions in a new millennium.
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Law of Dreams
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408 Pages
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English
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2006
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Literary, Historical
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Fiction
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Hardcover
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1.3 in
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"The Law of Dreams lowers a tape recorder into the pit of history. All that was lost, everything we've forgotten, is suddenly restored. The research is prodigious, the story is epic, the structure is bold, and the ancient language is something new and wondrous to our ears." - Clark Blaise "I've been lost in the world of this book since page two, and am deeply sorry to have reached the end. The story is beautifully made. The writing is stunning, like nothing you've read before except itself. Wow." - Beth Gutcheon, author of More than You Know "A portrait of desire rendered in darkly lyric tones. Peter Behrens is a highly gifted conjurer; the past he evokes is as mythic as it is historic, as seductive as it is nightmarishly, gorgeously real." - Heidi Julavits "Peter Behrens' superb THE LAW OF DREAMS is an emotional epic done in shadow-show, a lucid dream of the past, bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own." - Jonathan Lethem, "Peter Behrens' superb THE LAW OF DREAMS is an emotional epic done in shadow-show, a lucid dream of the past, bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own." - Jonathan Lethem, "A portrait of desire rendered in darkly lyric tones. Peter Behrens is a highly gifted conjurer; the past he evokes is as mythic as it is historic, as seductive as it is nightmarishly, gorgeously real." - Heidi Julavits "Peter Behrens' superb THE LAW OF DREAMS is an emotional epic done in shadow-show, a lucid dream of the past, bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own." - Jonathan Lethem, "Blending excruciating detail with the hopefulness of beauty, THE LAW OF DREAMS is a novel of struggle and fulfillment; of trust and the hollowness of betrayal. From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America there are scenes that will remain, forever, imprinted upon the reader's mind. Peter Behrens is a tremendously talented writer." - Alistair MacLeod, author of No Great Mischief "The Law of Dreams lowers a tape recorder into the pit of history. All that was lost, everything we've forgotten, is suddenly restored. The research is prodigious, the story is epic, the structure is bold, and the ancient language is something new and wondrous to our ears." - Clark Blaise, author of Time Lord "I've been lost in the world of this book since page two, and am deeply sorry to have reached the end. The story is beautifully made. The writing is stunning, like nothing you've read before except itself. Wow." - Beth Gutcheon, author of More than You Know "A portrait of desire rendered in darkly lyric tones. Peter Behrens is a highly gifted conjurer; the past he evokes is as mythic as it is historic, as seductive as it is nightmarishly, gorgeously real." - Heidi Julavits "Peter Behrens' superb THE LAW OF DREAMS is an emotional epic done in shadow-show, a lucid dream of the past, bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own." - Jonathan Lethem, "Behrens writes about the famine and its consequences as if he were an eyewitness. 'The Law of Dreams' is absorbing, unsparing and beautifully written. . . . His writing is seamless, and often gorgeous. He is droit at creating indelible characters in a few deft strokes. . . . What Behrens knows, what he teaches us again in this masterly novel, is that the past was indeed wondrous, andf terrible and strange, but that it was a very real place." - The New York Times Book Review Winner of The Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (Canada's Top Literary Prize) "The Law of Dreamsrings with a strange, hard poetry, a mingling of Behrens's rich narrative voice and scraps of startling wisdom that seem to emanate directly from Fergus's mind. Here he is in Liverpool, outside a pub, starving and barefoot, as always: 'Trying to make up his mind, he hopped restlessly from one foot to another, one coin in each fist. The door opened and [a] pack of thick-shouldered men came out, and he caught a tantalizing whiff of the smoky, meaty atmosphere within. You could stand outside, bootless and chewing fear like a baby; or take the bold plunge. Offer a coin for a feed and see if they would take it. The world, latent; a gun loaded with chance and mistakes.' In the life of this determined young man, Behrens illuminates one of the 19th century's greatest tragedies and the massive migration it launched. A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. 'Life burns hot,' Fergus thinks, and so do these pages. " --Washington Post "Peter Behrens' debut novel reminds me of the great concluding line in William Butler Yeats' epic poem Easter 1916: 'A Terrible Beauty is Born.' . . . His law of dreams is to keep moving. Readers will keep reading." -USA Today "All history is story and inThe Law of DreamsPeter Behrens takes us into the hearts of savages, rapacious English landlords posing as gentlemen in Ireland, and shows us how the failure of one simple crop, the potato, led to the deaths, the despair and the diaspora of millions of poor Irish. Behrens is a superb storyteller and a brilliant teacher who never lets on that he is teaching us. This book is a beautifully written, poetically inspired tale of heroism, love, yes and sex, and the triumph of the human spirit over murderous greed. It's a long road that Behrens makes shorter with many a surprising turn.The Law of Dreamsis one great book. I stayed up into the wee hours to finish it. I envy you this journey." - Malachy McCourt, author ofA Monk Swimming "One of the many fine things about Peter Behrens' stunningly lyrical first novel, 'The Law of Dreams', is that it is emphatically a story of that 'great hunger', a work of richly empahtietic imagination that reminds us once again of how powerful historical fiction can be in skilled hands. In fact, the story has a factual and emotional authenticity that calls to mind the similarly masterful debut Thomas Flanagan made with his now classic novel of Irish history, 'The Year of the French.'. . . . Behrens' is the definitive story of the nearly 2 million who went into exile, setting in motion the Irish diaspora that has continued until recent years. . . . One of the novel's strengths is the sharp and knowing way the author quickly but convincingly sketches in the inescapable predicaments of these characters. . . . Behrens is an unobtrusively elegant stylist; one of the great satisfactions of this book is the way in which [the protagonist] Fergus' inner consideration of his tormented journey distills itself aphoristically, as in this reflection: 'Betrayal tastes cold on the tongue, but you don't feel it so much, right at first; you're trying to pull yourself inside.'" -Los Angeles Times "The Law of Dreams is, "A fabulous book - makes history real enough to smell and so powerful in its emotional impact that I had to remind myself to breathe. This is the past, but made almost frighteningly present." - Kate Grenville "Behrens writes about the famine and its consequences as if he were an eyewitness. 'The Law of Dreams' is absorbing, unsparing and beautifully written. . . . His writing is seamless, and often gorgeous. He is adroit at creating indelible characters in a few deft strokes. . . . What Behrens knows, what he teaches us again in this masterly novel, is that the past was indeed wondrous, and terrible and strange, but that it was a very real place." - The New York Times Book Review Winner of The Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (Canada's Top Literary Prize) "Any novelist must write with a sense of urgency, an ability to convince us that he understands his characters and knows what they are going through. This is especially true, I think, when dealing with a historical incident that has been largely forgotten or even become something of a punch line, as the famine has. The Law of Dreams is a superb novel, and Behrens does a great job of putting one right in the midst of the horror that the famine actually was." - Kevin Baker, author ofParadise Alley&Dreamland "The Law of Dreamsrings with a strange, hard poetry, a mingling of Behrens's rich narrative voice and scraps of startling wisdom that seem to emanate directly from Fergus's mind. Here he is in Liverpool, outside a pub, starving and barefoot, as always: 'Trying to make up his mind, he hopped restlessly from one foot to another, one coin in each fist. The door opened and [a] pack of thick-shouldered men came out, and he caught a tantalizing whiff of the smoky, meaty atmosphere within. You could stand outside, bootless and chewing fear like a baby; or take the bold plunge. Offer a coin for a feed and see if they would take it. The world, latent; a gun loaded with chance and mistakes.' In the life of this determined young man, Behrens illuminates one of the 19th century's greatest tragedies and the massive migration it launched. A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. 'Life burns hot,' Fergus thinks, and so do these pages. " --Washington Post "Peter Behrens' debut novel reminds me of the great concluding line in William Butler Yeats' epic poem Easter 1916: 'A Terrible Beauty is Born.' . . . His law of dreams is to keep moving. Readers will keep reading." -USA Today "All history is story and inThe Law of DreamsPeter Behrens takes us into the hearts of savages, rapacious English landlords posing as gentlemen in Ireland, and shows us how the failure of one simple crop, the potato, led to the deaths, the despair and the diaspora of millions of poor Irish. Behrens is a superb storyteller and a brilliant teacher who never lets on that he is teaching us. This book is a beautifully written, poetically inspired tale of heroism, love, yes and sex, and the triumph of the human spirit over murderous greed. It's a long road that Behrens makes shorter with many a surprising turn.The Law of Dreamsis one great book. I stayed up into the wee hours to finish it. I envy you this journey." - Malachy McCourt, author ofA Monk Swimming "One of the many fine things about Peter Behrens' stunningly lyrical first novel, 'The Law of Dreams', is that it is emphatically a story of that 'great hunger', a work of richly empahtietic imagination that reminds us once again of how powerful historical fiction can be in skilled hands. In fact, the story has a factual and emotional authenticity that calls to mind the similarly masterful debut Thomas Flanagan made with his now classic novel of Irish history, 'The Year of, "The Law of Dreamsrings with a strange, hard poetry, a mingling of Behrens's rich narrative voice and scraps of startling wisdom that seem to emanate directly from Fergus's mind. Here he is in Liverpool, outside a pub, starving and barefoot, as always: 'Trying to make up his mind, he hopped restlessly from one foot to another, one coin in each fist. The door opened and [a] pack of thick-shouldered men came out, and he caught a tantalizing whiff of the smoky, meaty atmosphere within. You could stand outside, bootless and chewing fear like a baby; or take the bold plunge. Offer a coin for a feed and see if they would take it. The world, latent; a gun loaded with chance and mistakes.' In the life of this determined young man, Behrens illuminates one of the 19th century's greatest tragedies and the massive migration it launched. A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. 'Life burns hot,' Fergus thinks, and so do these pages. " --Washington Post "All history is story and inThe Law of DreamsPeter Behrens takes us into the hearts of savages, rapacious English landlords posing as gentlemen in Ireland, and shows us how the failure of one simple crop, the potato, led to the deaths, the despair and the diaspora of millions of poor Irish. Behrens is a superb storyteller and a brilliant teacher who never lets on that he is teaching us. This book is a beautifully written, poetically inspired tale of heroism, love, yes and sex, and the triumph of the human spirit over murderous greed. It's a long road that Behrens makes shorter with many a surprising turn.The Law of Dreamsis one great book. I stayed up into the wee hours to finish it. I envy you this journey." - Malachy McCourt, author ofA Monk Swimming "One of the many fine things about Peter Behrens' stunningly lyrical first novel, 'The Law of Dreams', is that it is emphatically a story of that 'great hunger', a work of richly empahtietic imagination that reminds us once again of how powerful historical fiction can be in skilled hands. In fact, the story has a factual and emotional authenticity that calls to mind the similarly masterful debut Thomas Flanagan made with his now classic novel of Irish history, 'The Year of the French.'. . . . Behrens' is the definitive story of the nearly 2 million who went into exile, setting in motion the Irish diaspora that has continued until recent years. . . . One of the novel's strengths is the sharp and knowing way the author quickly but convincingly sketches in the inescapable predicaments of these characters. . . . Behrens is an unobtrusively elegant stylist; one of the great satisfactions of this book is the way in which [the protagonist] Fergus' inner consideration of his tormented journey distills itself aphoristically, as in this reflection: 'Betrayal tastes cold on the tongue, but you don't feel it so much, right at first; you're trying to pull yourself inside.'" -Los Angeles Times "The Law of Dreams is the best literary adventure novel I've read since Lonesome Dove. Impelled by his great dream, Peter Behrens' young Irish hero survives the potato famine of 1847, an all-out war with his landlord, the brutalities of life on the tramp, a railroad encampment, nineteenth-century Liverpool, and the perils of an Atlantic crossing, to immigrate to North America. What a splendid tale!The Law of Dreamsis a brilliant, heart-felt celebration of the capacity of the human spirit, fueled by hope, to prevail in the face of the worst life can offer." - Howard Frank Mosher "I was amazed and moved by Peter Behrens'sThe Law of Dreams. Behrens restores to anonymous victims of the Irish famine the density, complexity and dignity of their individual existences. His unsparing account of their struggle for survival teems with insight and truth., "I was amazed and moved by Peter Behrens's The Law of Dreams. Behrens restores to anonymous victims of the Irish famine the density, complexity and dignity of their individual existences. His unsparing account of their struggle for survival teems with insight and truth. His storytelling is devoid of false sentiment. The characters are so real they seem ready to walk off the page. Haunting and heartbreaking, The Law of Dreamssweeps the reader along with the urgency, immediacy and poetry of its narrative force. This is historical fiction at its very finest." - Peter Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve "Blending excruciating detail with the hopefulness of beauty, THE LAW OF DREAMS is a novel of struggle and fulfillment; of trust and the hollowness of betrayal. From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America there are scenes that will remain, forever, imprinted upon the reader's mind. Peter Behrens is a tremendously talented writer." - Alistair MacLeod, author of No Great Mischief "The Law of Dreams lowers a tape recorder into the pit of history. All that was lost, everything we've forgotten, is suddenly restored. The research is prodigious, the story is epic, the structure is bold, and the ancient language is something new and wondrous to our ears." - Clark Blaise, author of Time Lord "I've been lost in the world of this book since page two, and am deeply sorry to have reached the end. The story is beautifully made. The writing is stunning, like nothing you've read before except itself. Wow." - Beth Gutcheon, author of More than You Know "A portrait of desire rendered in darkly lyric tones. Peter Behrens is a highly gifted conjurer; the past he evokes is as mythic as it is historic, as seductive as it is nightmarishly, gorgeously real." - Heidi Julavits "Peter Behrens' superb THE LAW OF DREAMS is an emotional epic done in shadow-show, a lucid dream of the past, bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own." - Jonathan Lethem, "All history is story and inThe Law of DreamsPeter Behrens takes us into the hearts of savages, rapacious English landlords posing as gentlemen in Ireland, and shows us how the failure of one simple crop, the potato, led to the deaths, the despair and the diaspora of millions of poor Irish. Behrens is a superb storyteller and a brilliant teacher who never lets on that he is teaching us. This book is a beautifully written, poetically inspired tale of heroism, love, yes and sex, and the triumph of the human spirit over murderous greed. It's a long road that Behrens makes shorter with many a surprising turn.The Law of Dreamsis one great book. I stayed up into the wee hours to finish it. I envy you this journey." - Malachy McCourt, author ofA Monk Swimming "The Law of Dreams is the best literary adventure novel I've read since Lonesome Dove. Impelled by his great dream, Peter Behrens' young Irish hero survives the potato famine of 1847, an all-out war with his landlord, the brutalities of life on the tramp, a railroad encampment, nineteenth-century Liverpool, and the perils of an Atlantic crossing, to immigrate to North America. What a splendid tale!The Law of Dreamsis a brilliant, heart-felt celebration of the capacity of the human spirit, fueled by hope, to prevail in the face of the worst life can offer." - Howard Frank Mosher "I was amazed and moved by Peter Behrens'sThe Law of Dreams. Behrens restores to anonymous victims of the Irish famine the density, complexity and dignity of their individual existences. His unsparing account of their struggle for survival teems with insight and truth. His storytelling is devoid of false sentiment. The characters are so real they seem ready to walk off the page. Haunting and heartbreaking,The Law of Dreamssweeps the reader along with the urgency, immediacy and poetry of its narrative force. This is historical fiction at its very finest." - Peter Quinn, author ofBanished Children of Eve "Blending excruciating detail with the hopefulness of beauty, THE LAW OF DREAMS is a novel of struggle and fulfillment; of trust and the hollowness of betrayal. From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America there are scenes that will remain, forever, imprinted upon the reader's mind. Peter Behrens is a tremendously talented writer." - Alistair MacLeod, author ofNo Great Mischief "The Law of Dreams lowers a tape recorder into the pit of history. All that was lost, everything we've forgotten, is suddenly restored. The research is prodigious, the story is epic, the structure is bold, and the ancient language is something new and wondrous to our ears." - Clark Blaise, author ofTime Lord "I've been lost in the world of this book since page two, and am deeply sorry to have reached the end. The story is beautifully made. The writing is stunning, like nothing you've read before except itself. Wow." - Beth Gutcheon, author ofMore than You Know "A portrait of desire rendered in darkly lyric tones. Peter Behrens is a highly gifted conjurer; the past he evokes is as mythic as it is historic, as seductive as it is nightmarishly, gorgeously real." - Heidi Julavits "Peter Behrens' superb THE LAW OF DREAMS is an emotional epic done in shadow-show, a lucid dream of the past, bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own." - Jonathan Lethem
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