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Peter Behrens | Steerforth | September 19, 2006
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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.