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Item specifics
- Condition
- EAN
- 9780060988432
- ISBN
- 0060988436
- Manufacturer
- Harper Perennial
- Brand
- Harper Perennial
- Binding
- TP
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060988436
ISBN-13
9780060988432
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72097777
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hour I First Believed : a Novel
Number of Pages
768 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Psychological, Women Authors, Family Life
Genre
Drama, Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Every character is rendered with vivid, utterly convincing depth. . . . A heck of a page-turner." (Dallas Morning News), Lamb does an extraordinary job narrating some of the most terrifying tragedies of the past 10 years....an epic journey. Grade: A., "Lamb . . . has delivered a tour de force, his best yet. A" -- Entertainment Weekly "A page-turner. . . . Lamb remains a storyteller at the top of his game." -- Craig Wilson, USA Today "Too compelling to put down . . . a richly textured story . . . moving, funny, and completely unpredictable." -- Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Every character is rendered with vivid, utterly convincing depth. . . . A heck of a page-turner." -- Dallas Morning News "Lamb, a maestro of orchestrating emotion . . . knows how to make his fans' hearts sing." -- Corrie Pikul, Elle "Wally Lamb is a remarkable talent." -- Columbus Dispatch "Lamb has crafted another affecting, engrossing tome about complicated, interesting characters." -- Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune "A soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title" -- Miami Herald "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 "When you put Lamb's newest novel down, it will be reluctantly. It's that good." -- Knoxville News-Sentinel, Too compelling to put down . . . a richly textured story . . . moving, funny, and completely unpredictable., "Lamb has crafted another affecting, engrossing tome about complicated, interesting characters." (Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
New York Times Bestseller "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 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 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., When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. When Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right, and further tragedy ensues., New York Times Bestseller "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 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 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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