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ISBN: 9780060393496

Book Title: Hour I First Believed : a Novel

Item Length: 9in

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Year: 2008

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Author: Wally Lamb

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New York Times Bestseller The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True "The beauty of The Hour I First Believed , a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never loses sight of the spark of human resilience. . . . Lamb's wonderful novel offers us the promise and power of hope." -- Miami Herald When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Connecticut to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm back east. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues. In The Hour I First Believed , Wally Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.

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Hour I First Believed : a Novel

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Lamb does an extraordinary job narrating some of the most terrifying tragedies of the past 10 years....an epic journey. Grade: A., Too compelling to put down . . . a richly textured story . . . moving, funny, and completely unpredictable., "Lamb does an extraordinary job narrating some of the most terrifying tragedies of the past 10 years....an epic journey. Grade: A." (Rocky Mountain News)

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by matra_kayly
Jan 22, 2016Top favourable review
Relevant to our times
Mr. Lamb takes historical facts intertwining these seamlessly with fictious additives that one cognitively has to read between the two. This is not saying his style is distracting, far from it, one needs to be awake to catch the nuances between fact and fiction. I found it to be an intriguing page turner! Excellent read and quite relevant to our country's present state.
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by daveseaman31362
Aug 02, 2010
I betcha fifty bucks this wins the Pulitzer
We've all know since Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" hit the shelves that this is a man who is a gifted writer. He followed his first triumph with the amazing "I know This Much Is True" so we saw that he was able to change voices in narrative; his writing skills were defined well. Ten years later his novel "The Hour I First Believed" came out and the voice of narrative was that of Caelum Quirk. Wally Lamb does not exist in this first person novel. Lamb is a master at creating character and his character's are as well done and as brilliant as a character created by Meryl Streep. Wally Lamb is, without question, one the most gifted American Writer alive today and, perhaps, ever. Mr. Lamb very thoroughly and humanly examines PTSD or posttraumatic stress disorder should you have spent the ... We've all know since Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" hit the shelves that this is a man who is a gifted writer. He followed his first triumph with the amazing "I know This Much Is True" so we saw that he was able to change voices in narrative; his writing skills were defined well. Ten years later his novel "The Hour I First Believed" came out and the voice of narrative was that of Caelum Quirk. Wally Lamb does not exist in this first person novel. Lamb is a master at creating character and his character's are as well done and as brilliant as a character created by Meryl Streep. Wally Lamb is, without question, one the most gifted American Writer alive today and, perhaps, ever. Mr. Lamb very thoroughly and humanly examines PTSD or posttraumatic stress disorder should you have spent the last five years unaware. He takes a normal American couple: Caelum is a high school English teacher; his wife Maureen (we grow to love her as "Mo") both left the family farm (five generations in the same home,) and moved to Colorado to be closer to Mo's family. They both get a job at the same school and the book begins on April 16, 1999. It is Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and it is four days prior to Hitler's birthday. So, like "Titanic" or "Tale of Two Cities", we know what the characters do not: that they are doomed very soon. As a result it becomes less about plot and more about melodrama and character, the exact definition of which is how our characters react to outrageous ans horrific situations. Caelum's Aunt Lolly has died and Caelum must return to the family farm in Connecticut on Sunday the 18th. Mo has assured him that she will join him on the next available flight, which turns out to be Tuesday evening, January 20. A solid five hours after the two now-famous boys create a war zone in and around Columbine High School. Caelum is watching it on live television from his friends bakery in Connecticut and then from his Aunt's television at the farm house. His aunt has died and he needs to arrange the funeral. More than that, he needs Mo, but now he watches on Live television as the building in which Mo is right at the moment is under siege. He doesn't know if Mo is alive or dead. He watched live as friends of his are killed. She survives physically but her mind is essentially convinced her that she will never be safe again. And she may not. But who is? Caelum begins a quest of his own, begrudgingly but he literally searches his family roots to discover things about his own survival. He can't ever quite keep a conversation about the chaos theory out of his mind during during his flight of despair where a man who studies and teaches about the chaos theory gives him the first half of the formula. It's Caelum's job to find the rest of it. The same is true for us. Typical of Wally Lamb the story is charges with plot twists and ways to understand what it is to live in someone elses shoes for a while. Because his great grandmother was politically inspired as a suffragette, the only woman's prison in the State of Connecticut happens to be on his family farm; a huge white elephant and an even larger metaphor.In the end, you will be very moved, no matter your own personal circumstance, condition or grade of happiness or satisfaction. A fire will bring new life and a flood will bring out shoots of new plants and animals.
by dcle1106
Aug 04, 2009
A deeply profound novel, heartfelt and heart wrenching.
As with Wally Lambs first two fictional novels, The Hour I First Believed dives deep into the life of it's main character and takes you along for the ride. Through the horrors of Columbine, the pain and agony of a disfunctional marriage, and the life of a school teacher Lamb takes readers into the inner workings of the mind of Mr. Quirk. Through his pain and fear he manages to be a pillar of strength for those around him, all the while discovering family history that was probably best left untouched. Filled with raw emotion, and unbelievable heart, this book made me laugh, cry, think, love and hate all through the eyes of one incredibly remarkable man. I would strongly recommend this book to any one, and every one. It's hard to find a book that simply won't allow it's pages to be closed ... As with Wally Lambs first two fictional novels, The Hour I First Believed dives deep into the life of it's main character and takes you along for the ride. Through the horrors of Columbine, the pain and agony of a disfunctional marriage, and the life of a school teacher Lamb takes readers into the inner workings of the mind of Mr. Quirk. Through his pain and fear he manages to be a pillar of strength for those around him, all the while discovering family history that was probably best left untouched. Filled with raw emotion, and unbelievable heart, this book made me laugh, cry, think, love and hate all through the eyes of one incredibly remarkable man. I would strongly recommend this book to any one, and every one. It's hard to find a book that simply won't allow it's pages to be closed and it's words unread. This is one of those books. I waited for years between the release of I Know This Much Is True and The Hour I First Believed simply because of my faith in Lamb as a writer. His words and style bring life to even the simplest of characters, and turn them into blue-collar heroes in their own sense. I hope that I don't have to wait as long for his next release, but if that's what it takes I will.
by nunonna05
Dec 09, 2008
The Hour I First Believed
The Hour I First Believed is about the main character (Maureen) struggle to recover from being part of a horrifying Columbine-like attack. It is about what it means to be a victim and to live with anger, fear and post-traumatic stress. It is about the ways in which violence mars and changes us - often forever. Maureen emerges from the library cabinet physically whole, but it is as if she’s died. Her struggle to heal is long and painful, and her husband is never quite able to help her the way she needs him to and he wants to. The author’s writing about the Columbine shooting and its aftermath is gripping, chilling, and intense. He uses the killers’ and victims’ real names and incorporates entries from their diaries, transcripts of their videos and webpages, and material from the ... The Hour I First Believed is about the main character (Maureen) struggle to recover from being part of a horrifying Columbine-like attack. It is about what it means to be a victim and to live with anger, fear and post-traumatic stress. It is about the ways in which violence mars and changes us - often forever. Maureen emerges from the library cabinet physically whole, but it is as if she’s died. Her struggle to heal is long and painful, and her husband is never quite able to help her the way she needs him to and he wants to. The author’s writing about the Columbine shooting and its aftermath is gripping, chilling, and intense. He uses the killers’ and victims’ real names and incorporates entries from their diaries, transcripts of their videos and webpages, and material from the nationwide news coverage to successfully imagine the fictional Quirks into the real-life events. This section of the book reads like a memoir by a person who really was there, and Lamb’s ability to capture the emotional journey Caelum takes as he attempts to make sense of the incident and to help Maureen heal is powerful and touching.
by oLoiBV9vTy-@Deleted
Dec 12, 2008
An Excellent Book!
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.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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