The Hour I First Believed

Wally Lamb

Original title: The hour I first believed

first published 2008 HarperCollins Publishers, 2008 740 pages

Wally Lamb's two previous novels, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, struck a chord with readers. They responded to the intensely introspective nature of the books, and to their lively narrative styles and biting humor. One critic called Wally Lamb a "modern-day Dostoyevsky," whose characters struggle not only with their respective pasts, but with a "mocking, sadistic God" in whom they don't believe but...

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The Hour I First Believed edition · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780007313761
The hour I first believed edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers · 740 pages · 9780060393496
The Hour I First Believed ebook · 2008 · HarperCollins · 9780061772344

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