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Wally Lamb

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in Norwich, Connecticut, The United States

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Wally Lamb is the author of She's Come Undone, The Hour I First Believed, and I Know This Much Is True. Two were featured as selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb is the recipient of the Connecticut Center for the Book's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Connecticut Bar Association's Distinguished Public Service Award, the Connecticut Governor's Art Award, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 1999 New England Book Award for Fiction, and the Missouri Review William Peden Fiction Prize.

He was the director of the Writing Center at the Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut from 1989-1998, and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut’s English Department. He holds a B.A. in Education and an M.A. ...more

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Wally Lamb to Read at the Saratoga Book Festival in October

The Saratoga Book Festival is an annual community-wide celebration of books in downtown Saratoga Springs, New York. Save the Date! On October 13-15, 2023, the Friends of the Saratoga Springs Public Library once again presents the annual Saratoga Book Festival. The three-day festival features big-stage presentations and intimate conversations with acclaimed writers. In all, more than 25 different f

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	She's Come Undone 3.90 avg rating — 341,912 ratings — published 1992 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Know This Much Is True 4.20 avg rating — 308,829 ratings — published 1998 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hour I First Believed 3.82 avg rating — 62,017 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are Water 3.82 avg rating — 52,225 ratings — published 2013 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wishin' and Hopin' 3.59 avg rating — 17,125 ratings — published 2009 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'll Take You There 3.26 avg rating — 9,998 ratings — published 2016 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution 4.10 avg rating — 7,423 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author), I'll Fly Away contributors 3.98 avg rating — 2,711 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wally Lamb Fiction Collection: The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, We Are Water, and Wishin' and Hopin' 4.53 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Don’t Know Me: The Incarcerated Women of York Prison Voice Their Truths by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author), The Women of York Prison 4.39 avg rating — 62 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”
― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone

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“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone

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“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

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June ~ Side Reads BotM- 2nd Poll

We had a four way tie!! Top 7 Books!!

Necessary Lies

By Diane Chamberlain

19 votes, 32.8%

The Golem and the Jinni

By Helene Wecker

9 votes, 15.5%

The House at the End of Hope Street

By Menna van Praag

9 votes, 15.5%

The Happy Endings Book Club

By Jane Tara

6 votes, 10.3%

Watership Down

By Richard Adams

6 votes, 10.3%

The Boy in the Suitcase

By Lene Kaaberbøl

5 votes, 8.6%

The Hour I First Believed

By Wally Lamb

4 votes, 6.9%

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