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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060393496
ISBN: 0060393491
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: November 11, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Studio: Harper
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As in "She's Come Undone" and "I Know This Much Is True," awful things keep happening until you want to slit your own wrists. But Wally Lamb has a way of making the ending so uplifting that it's worth the emotional trauma. One of the best books I've read this year.
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I just bought this book yesterday and I can't put it down! I bought this after reading "She's Come Undone" and Wally Lamb is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors. His characters are realistic and flawed, and always compelling. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good character study and an in-depth emotional story.
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I have been looking forward "The Hour I First Believed: A Novel" since I first learned it was in the works a couple years ago. I became a fan of Mr. Lamb's after reading the excellent "She's Come Undone" And then followed it with the just as good I Know This Much Is True" At the time, Lamb's style and sensibility were a whole new world to me. I loved the black humor, but it was the introspective style and snappy narrative that made him a joy to read.
This time out Lamb has gone above and beyond his previous works, creating a great American novel that speaks to the current generation. It's the story of Caelum Quirk and his young wife Maureen. The story of how the attempt to put their lives back together after Maureen miraculously survives the massacre at Columbine high school, she survives but not without deep physiological scares. The couple moves back to Caelum's family farm in Connecticut in an attempt to escape the horror of the school shooting, but life is not so ... Read More
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"Life is messy, violent, confusing, and hopeful..."
Thus the story unfolds. Caelum Quirk, a high school teacher and his younger wife Maureen, a school nurse, moved to Littleton, Colorado - they both were hired at Columbine High School - and here they hoped to start anew. In their previous home in Three Rivers, Connecticut, their
marriage had begun to fracture when Maureen had a love affair with a coworker, and Caelum's response - to take a wrench to the man - landed him in legal troubles and living under a cloud. So as they begin anew, they hope to slowly piece their lives together...Until the day in April, 1999, when havoc rained upon them.
Just before the horrific shootings at Columbine High School, Caelum had briefly returned to Connecticut, visiting with his aunt who had suffered a stroke. When he heard about the carnage at the high school, he returned home to Colorado in a panic, and for a few desperate hours, did not know his wife's fate. ... Read More
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The new book by Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, is a tremendous book. It starts first with its size - over 700 pages - and then with the depth of the story found between its covers. It begins with a husband and wife who have "survived" the shootings at Columbine. But the story then proceeds to be more much that just their reaction to the terrible day in 1999. The depth and detail taken with all the characters is a testament to the writing ability of Lamb. The story spans generations and the reader becomes genuinely invested in so many of them. This was a hard book to put down. I have loved every Wally Lamb that I have read - this is the third - and I hope he has many more to write in the future.
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