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The Law of Dreams : A Novel Paperback - 2007
by Peter Behrens
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- very good
- Paperback
Telling the story of a young mans epic passage from innocence to experience during The Great Famine in Ireland of 1847, this novel is gorgeously written in incandescent language that unleashes the sexual and psychological energies of a lost world.
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- Title The Law of Dreams : A Novel
- Author Peter Behrens
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2007
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0812978005I4N00
- ISBN 9780812978001 / 0812978005
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.55 x 0.94 in (20.98 x 14.10 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Canadiana
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007004343
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Ireland, 1846. A boy on a life-changing journey which lives in the mind long after the final page. 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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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 10/28/2007, Page 28