Author Event: Peter Behrens

BLUE HILL –Author Peter Behrens will read from his new novel, The O’Briens at the Blue Hill Public Library on Thursday July 19th at 7:00 PM.  The O’Briens is a family saga that spans three generations and goes from the wilds of Canada to Venice, California.  The New York Times Book Review called it “Absorbing, unsparing and beautifully written . . . a masterly novel.”

The O’Briens is Peter Behrens’ second novel. His first novel, The Law of Dreams, won the Governor-General’s Award, Canada’s most prestigious book prize, and has been published in nine languages. He has also written a collection of short stories, Night Driving, and his stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Brick, Best Canadian Stories, Best Canadian Essays, and many anthologies.  Behrens has also worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

Behrens is a native of Montreal and studied at Concordia and McGill Universities. He has held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, and was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He spends his winters in West Texas, where decades ago he led whitewater expeditions (when he wasn’t being a cowboy in Alberta, Canada) and fell in love with the desert landscape.

This event is sponsored by the Blue Hill Public Library. There is no charge, and everyone is welcome. Books will be for sale and available signing.  For more information, call the Library at 374-5515.