Books : The Hour I First Believed LP: A Novel
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by: Wally Lamb
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061711794
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 0061711799
Label: HarperLuxe
Manufacturer: HarperLuxe
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1136
Publication Date: November 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Sales Rank: 19285
Studio: HarperLuxe
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Product Description:
When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, 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 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.
While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers five generations' worth of diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in his family's house. As unimaginable secrets emerge, Caelum grapples with the past and struggles to fashion a future from the ashes of tragedy. His quest for meaning is at once mythic and contemporary, personal and quintessentially American.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Amazing book!
You know the kind of book where you crawl into another world and become a totally different human being? That's this book. It takes you completely away from your life and home and you become someone else. It is thought-provoking, fascinating, interesting, enlightening, empathetic, humanizing. It is quite simply an amazing book. I loved it.
Rating:  - The Hour I First Believed
Wally Lamb is one of my favorite authors of all time but this book just rambled from one thing to another. The characters were impossible to care for. The story was set together in pieces that did not even begin to flow. I stuck it out for most of the book, waiting for it to get better, but had to finish by thumbing through the rest of the pages. Extremely disappointing, especially after thoroughly enjoying I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE also by Lamb which was an exceptional story from beginning to end. ... Read More
Rating: - Truly moving
All I wanted was a small paperback to bring on vacation with me, but when I walked into the book store and saw Wally Lamb's new novel sitting there I had to have it. Worth every bit of carring this 700+ page book on the plane and to the beach! This novel is truly moving. It touched on so many topics and intertwined the past and present in a unique manner. It is fast paced and written with such expression and insight that at times I would literally gasp out loud while reading. I could not put this ... Read More
Rating: - Dark Book
If you allow it, this book will effect your mood. The story ties in actual events that took place at Columbine High with the actual people, places and evidence tied into a fictional account of the narrator/author's account of things happining in his life before,during and the most compelling, dark period, after the columbine murders and it's affect it takes on himself and his wife and the world around him. This is truly dark stuff, because you KNOW that someone, somewhere is experiencing exactly what your ... Read More
Rating:  - Gritty, confident, witty, and direct
The story begins with the Columbine School Massacre, having followed the seemingly innocent culprits before the event. It then goes into fiction centred on the two main characters, husband and wife, and how they are affected, along with glimpses into their family's past. It all makes for an epic journey.
I must admit had difficulty finishing this book, the reason? Quite simply I did not like the character who was the narrator. The narrator, Caelum Quirk, is an educated man, a teacher, but he ... Read More
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