The Hour I First Believed: A Novel - Brossura

Lamb, Wally

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ISBN 10: 0060988436 ISBN 13: 9780060988432

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

“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)

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0060988436
• ISBN 13: 9780060988432
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 756