WALLY LAMB

Behind every good man is a great woman - or three. The kaleidoscopic new novel from Wally Lamb: the number one New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone. Every Monday evening, Felix Funicello sets up a new film at an old vaudeville theatre for his weekly movie club. But one night, as this sixty-year-old scholar prepares the projectionist booth, he is confronted by an unanticipated guest: the ghost of Lois Weber. Once a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood's silent film era, Lois invites Felix to sit back and watch a new feature on the big screen - scenes from Felix's life. Though unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois. And as these magical movies play before him, he begins to reflect on the trio of unforgettable women who have profoundly impacted his life: his troublesome yet loving sister; his Generation Y daughter; and Verna, a fiery would-be beauty queen from the 1950s. An evocative and kaleidoscopic convergence of Hollywood, feminism and family secrets, I'll Take You There is a radiant homage to a single life and to the resiliency, strength and power of women.

A selection of Oprah's Book Club! In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites readers to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet 13-year-old Delores Price. She's left her childhood behind, and spends her adolescence munching in front of the TV. When she orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, she is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year; a "People" Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year; A "Los Angeles Times" Book Award Finalist for Best First Novel of the Year.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICKA USA TODAY BESTSELLER#1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a propulsive novel following a young father grappling with unbearable tragedy as he searches for hope, redemption, and the possibility of forgiveness.Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And thats before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mothers enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?

Octobre 1990, Three Rivers (Connecticut). Thomas Birdsey entre dans la bibliothèque municipale et, pour protester contre lintervention militaire au Koweit, se tranche la main. Il est interné et, pour

1964. Le rêve américain brille de mille feux, les Beatles sèment l’hystérie sur leur passage et Felix Funicello, dix ans, se morfond dans la très catholique école Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, dirigée d’u

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of three Oprah Book Club Picks including The River Is WaitingWally Lamb takes us on an extraordinary journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered.... Meet Dolores Price. Shes thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time shes determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably lovable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections. Shes Come Undone includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price.

Toute sa vie, Annie Oh a été terrifiée. Terrifiée à lidée de tomber amoureuse ; de se dévoiler à Orion, son ex-mari psychologue; de ne pas être une bonne mère pour ses trois enfants ; de ne pas savoi

#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytellingwith the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. Its hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget."USA TodayDominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront the dark family secrets and pain he has buried deep within himselfa journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicilys Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and the generational trauma of his lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin.I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told family saga of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewalan unforgettable masterpiece.

Behind every good man is a great woman - or threeA New York Times bestseller: the kaleidoscopic new novel from Wally Lamb, author of Shes Come Undone.Every Monday, sixty-year-old Felix Funicello sets up a new film for his weekly club at an old-fashioned cinema. But one night, he is confronted by an unanticipated guest: the ghost of Lois Weber. Once a trailblazing director from the silent film era, Lois invites Felix to watch a new feature on the big screen scenes from his past. As these magical movies play before him, Felix begins to understand how a trio of unforgettable women have shaped his history. An evocative and kaleidoscopic convergence of Hollywood, feminism and family secrets, Ill Take You There is a radiant homage to a single life and to the resiliency, strength and power of women.

From the author of the international number one bestseller I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE comes a magnificent novel of a life turned upside-down by tragedy and the search for a way to carry on in the aftermath. Caelum Quirkes a middle-aged schoolteacher. Students at Columbine High School generally respect him and turn to his wife Maureen, the school nurse, when in trouble. When he has to return to his home town for the funeral of his beloved aunt, Maureen promises to join him the next day but she goes to work that morning, and thats when the shootings happen. She hides in a cupboard, unable to see whats happening, but listening to the students being taunted, then killed. Life can never be the same. But what can it be? In the face of Maureens trauma, Caelum searches for meaning, delving into his own family history and discovering that nothing was as hes always been told. As the couple inch towards recovery and suffer setbacks, the stories of Caelums redoubtable ancestors illuminate how he came to be the man he is, and how he and Maureen might live in the future with freedom and dignity. With no easy answers, Caelum gradually comes to an understanding of who he really is and what he can believe in.

From New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy. As Annie Ohs wedding day approaches, she finds herself at the mercy of hopes and fears about the momentous change ahead. She has just emerged from a twenty-five year marriage to Orion Oh, which produced three children, but is about to marry a woman named Viveca, a successful art dealer, who specializes in outsider art. Trying to reach her ex-husband, she keeps assuring everyone that he is fine. Except she has no idea where he is. But when Viveca discovers a famous painting by a mysterious local outside artist, who left this world in more than mysterious circumstances, Orion, Annie and Vivecas new dynamic becomes fraught. And on the day of the wedding, the secrets and shocking truths that have been discovered will come to light. Set in Lambs mythical town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, this is a riveting, epic novel about marriage and family, old hurts and past secrets, which explores the ways we find meaning in our lives.

Wally Lambs affection for these characters is so palpable, his intentions so palpably good, that its hard not to be touched by this sweet-natured novel.Washington PostIn this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women, Wally Lambauthor of numerous New York Times bestselling novels including Shes Come Undone, I Know This Much is True, and We Are Waterweaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomers life and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it.Ill Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, hes confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywoods silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisitand in some cases relivescenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinemas big screen.In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. Theres his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her postmodern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses.Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face.

This book is a bonbon for any baby boomer. . . . Lamb gets Felixs voice just right, and he does a spot-on job of evoking the special joys and trials of parochial school in the 60sPut a bow on this book and warm somebodys heart. St. Petersburg TimesWally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and Shes Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin and Hopinan unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season.Its 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyones turntable, and ten-year-old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth gradeeasier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy. But there are several things young Felix can depend on: the birds and bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas hes never going to forget.Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherds A Christmas Story and David Sedariss The Santaland Diaries, Lambs Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicelloa distant cousin of the iconic Annette!

New York Times Bestseller"The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never loses sight of the spark of human resilience. . . . Lambs wonderful novel offers us the promise and power of hope.Miami HeraldThe profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith, this gripping work of psychological fiction comes from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shes Come Undone and I Know This Much Is TrueWhen 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, in a story set against the backdrop of a national tragedy, 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 as two vengeful students go on a murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the debilitating trauma and PTSD. In a marriage suddenly in crisis, Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado for 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. In The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work to deliver a powerful family saga. He embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, a moving story of grief and loss that is at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.

Powerful . . . In Ill Fly Away, the women have penned well-drawn evocative pieces about their experiences . . . . Healing is happening through writing.Lisa Ko, author of The LeaversThe #1 New York Times bestselling author offers an inspiring new collection of writings from the members of his acclaimed program in Connecticuts York Correctional FacilityIn 2003 Wally Lamb, published Couldnt Keep It to Myself, a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticuts only prison for women. The New York Times described the book as Gut-tearing tales . . . the unvarnished truth.Now Lamb returns with Ill Fly Away, a new volume of intimate, searching pieces from the York workshop. Here, 20 women18 inmates and two of Lambs cofacilitatorsshare the experiences that shaped them from childhood and that haunt and inspire them to this day. These portraits, vignettes, and stories depict with soul-baring honesty how and why women land in prisonand what happens once they get there. The stories are as varied as the individuals who wrote them, but each testifies to the same core truth: the universal value of knowing oneself and changing ones life through the power of the written word.These raw and honest stories from the women of York Prison explore:Womens Prison Writing: Soul-baring testimonies that illuminate the paths that lead women to incarceration, from childhood trauma to the moment of a crime. Healing Through Writing: The transformative power of Wally Lambs acclaimed writing workshop, where women confront their pasts and find the courage to change their lives. Stories of Incarceration: An unflinching look at life inside a maximum-security facilitythe daily routines, the unexpected friendships, and the fight to hold on to hope. Social Justice Nonfiction: A powerful argument for prison reform and the rehabilitative power of the arts, introduced by Wally Lambs own story of fighting for these womens voices to be heard.