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The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb (2008, Hardcover) 
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The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb (2008, Hardcover)

Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0060393491
ISBN-13: 9780060393496
Product ID: EPID65952328
Description: After a 10-year hiatus from fiction, bestseller Wally Lamb returns with THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED, a sprawling, emotionally rich novel about two married high-school teachers who work at Columbine High School during the deadly shooting of...
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Synopsis
After a 10-year hiatus from fiction, bestseller Wally Lamb returns with THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED, a sprawling, emotionally rich novel about two married high-school teachers who work at Columbine High School during the deadly shooting of 1999. Lamb was a two-time Oprah Book Club author; his first two novels, SHE'S COME UNDONE and I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE, have sold over six million copies as a result of his earnest depiction of physical and mental suffering, and for his compelling tales of redemption in the face of tragedy.

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Publication Date:2008-11-01

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Length:740 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.8 in
Weight:35.2 oz

Publisher's Note
"Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events. By the author of I'll Fly Away. 500,000 first printing."

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      I betcha fifty bucks this wins the Pulitzer
    Review created: 11/27/08(updated 07/29/09)
    8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

    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, the most gifted American Writer alive today and, perhaps, ever. I say this as a huge Mark Twain fan.

    Mr. Lamb very thoroughly and humanly examines PTSD or post traumatic 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 at their school. 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, the exact definition of which is how our characters react to outrageous ans horrific situations.

    Caelum's Aunt Lolly has a stroke 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.

    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 surviva. 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.
    Mr. Lamb will never be forgotten and if something else wins the Pulitzer, I'll eat this book; All nine hundred pages.


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      An Excellent Book!
    Review created: 12/12/08
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    5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

    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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