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The Law of Dreams is a historical fiction novel about the Great Famine of Ireland by Canadian author Peter Behrens. Published in 2006 by House of Anansi Press, it was the recipient of that year's Governor General's Award for English language fiction.
The Law of Dreams (Steerforth) by Peter Behrens tells of a young man's Homeric passage from innocence to experience during the Irish Famine of 1847.
The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man's Homeric passage from innocence to experience during the Irish Famine of 1847. Peter Behrens transports the reader to another time and place for a resonant, unforgettable experience.
22. Aug. 2006 · 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.
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Peter Behrens's bestselling novel is gorgeously written, Homeric in scope, and haunting in its depiction of a young man's perilous journey from innocence to experience.The Law of Dreams follows...
Before the end of the year, Fergus watches his family and home collapse in flames and is thrust on a journey from County Clare to the docks of Liverpool, the navvy camps along the railway construction in Wales, and ultimately across the Atlantic. Originally published: Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth, 2006: Edinburgh: Canongate, 2007.
Winner of Canada’s top literary prize, 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.
