MARFA, Texas — Come February, a lifetime or so ago, when Peter Behrens was in his 20s and still wrangling cattle in the Canadian Rockies, he would leave Sundre, Alberta, and drive south in a ...

Peter Behrens portrait taken by Waldemar Titzenthaler c.1913. (Public domain) Born in Hamburg, Behrens moved to Munich in 1890 where he began his career as a painter, illustrator and bookbinder ...

Peter Behrens in 2011 Della Rollins/The Globe and Mail. Share. The source of a writer's potency is mysterious, unpredictable. For novelist Peter Behrens, the hunt was long and circular, ...

By contrast, the non-standard disclaimer in Peter Behrens's new novel, The O'Briens, is strangely ambiguous and elaborate. It even gets its own page and title – Author's Note – at the end of ...

For Peter Behrens, dead doesn't mean gone. "The dead have a claim on me in some way," says the author of The Law of Dreams.But while his mother's ancestors have haunted his past novels, Behrens ...

Behrens's latest novel, "The O'Briens," picks up with Joe, grandson of Fergus, in late 19th-century Canada.The book's opening section, "Ashling" (from the Irish word for a vision), finds Joe, his ...

Fifteen years ago, when Peter Behrens first sat down to write about his family, he got partway into the story before realizing he needed to go further back in time.… ...

Peter Behrens: The O'Briens. Hosted by Michael Silverblatt May. 03, 2012 Books. Listen 30 min MORE The O'Briens (Pantheon) A first for Bookworm, a family saga worth the name. Not sentimental, not ...

If you were trying to describe Peter Behrens' latest novel, you would use words like "sweeping" and "epic". "The O'Briens" takes us from 1887 to 1960, and across North America and back.

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