The Law of Dreams - Hardcover

Behrens, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887842070 ISBN 13: 9780887842078

Publisher: Anansi, 2006

Synopsis

It is 1846, the height of the Great Hunger, and young Fergus is forced to grow up fast. Following the destruction of his home, he loses not only his family but everything he has ever loved. So begins an epic journey from innocence to experience that takes him from the west coast of Ireland to the docks and bordellos of Liverpool, and across the Atlantic. Along his journey he will meet bandit chiefs and railway navvies, 'pearl boys' and daring girls, and the willful Molly, who will teach him the ways of the world.

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Review:

"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 "A fearsome story of such prolonged agony and unquenchable spirit that you can't escape till the final page abandons you to astonished silence." Washington Post "Frequently thrilling and always arresting...Unsparing in its determination to distil both the precise eternals of a moment and the fierce interiority of the human mind. The dialogue, too, seems to emerge from the mouths of characters who...have never been allowed to talk this way before." The Globe and Mail "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"

Book Description:

Powerful, sweeping, cinematic story from an award-winning author

About this edition

• Publisher: Anansi
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0887842070
• ISBN 13: 9780887842078
• Binding: Hardcover