The Hour I First Believed Contributor(s): Lamb, Wally (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060988436 ISBN-13: 9780060988432 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author and two-time Oprah's Book Club pick delivers his first novel in over a decade--an extraordinary work of prodigious scope and ambition that explores the consequences of violent events, and the chaos that ensues. |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: P.S. |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.5" W x 8" (1.40 lbs) 768 pages |
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Publisher Description: New York Times Bestseller 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lamb, Wally: - 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 |