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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.
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"Wally Lamb is a remarkable talent." -- Columbus Dispatch
"A soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title"--Miami Herald
"Lamb . . . has delivered a tour de force, his best yet. A"--Entertainment Weekly
"Lamb, a maestro of orchestrating emotion . . . knows how to make his fans' hearts sing."--Corrie Pikul, Elle
"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
"Every character is rendered with vivid, utterly convincing depth. . . . A heck of a page-turner."--Dallas Morning 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."--Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A page-turner. . . . Lamb remains a storyteller at the top of his game."--Craig Wilson, USA Today
"Lamb has crafted another affecting, engrossing tome about complicated, interesting characters."--Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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"A soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title"--Miami Herald
"Lamb . . . has delivered a tour de force, his best yet. A"--Entertainment Weekly
"Lamb, a maestro of orchestrating emotion . . . knows how to make his fans' hearts sing."--Corrie Pikul, Elle
"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
"Every character is rendered with vivid, utterly convincing depth. . . . A heck of a page-turner."--Dallas Morning 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."--Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A page-turner. . . . Lamb remains a storyteller at the top of his game."--Craig Wilson, USA Today
"Lamb has crafted another affecting, engrossing tome about complicated, interesting characters."--Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hopin', and We Are Water. His first two works of fiction, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and
selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb edited Couldn't Keep It to Myself and I'll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for seventeen years.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. New York Times BestsellerThe profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shes Come Undone and I Know This Much Is TrueThe 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. . . . Lambs 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. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780061711794
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