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  • The Hour I First Believed

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  • Written by: Wally Lamb
  • Narrated by: George Guidall
  • Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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The Hour I First Believed

Written by: Wally Lamb
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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.
©2008 Wally Lamb (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers
Psychological Genre Fiction
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I adore this author

The cynical approach to the chaos theory that is life made me re evaluate my morality .

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Filled with Emotional Chaos!

This is one of the best books I have ever had the pleasure to hear! Your emotions are all over the map! From worry, to pride, to fear, to sadness, to anger.......you name it, it has it! an absolute must read! or listen... Well done Mr. Lamb!

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very underwhelming and terribly written

struggled couldnt finish. i got 1 hour in the narrators indian accent is atrocious and insulting. The writing is boring and feels like Wally is spoon feeding the plotline.

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