Wally Lamb
Autor(a) de She's Come Undone
About the Author
Walter (Wally) Lamb was born in Norwich, Connecticut on October 17, 1950. He attended the University of Connecticut, receiving a B.A. in 1972 and an M.A. in 1977; he also earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College in 1984. Lamb has written numerous short stories, most notably "Astronauts", which mostrar mais received both the Pushcart Prize and the University of Missouri's William Peden Prize in 1990. He is also the author of the bestselling novels She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed and We Are Water. Lamb writes stories, he says, because he sometimes hears another voice in his head and feels the need to tell that character's story. He made The New York Times Best Seller List with his title We are Water. However, he feels an equally strong calling to teach, and has no plans to become a fulltime writer. He has taught English at the Norwich Free Academy since 1972, and for many years directed the Academy's writing center, which he also played a major role in creating. The idea for it developed as he became more involved in fiction writing himself and realized that the common methods of teaching composition, which involved grading a paper and commenting on it after the student was finished, were not particularly helpful. He set up a program that allowed students to get feedback from both teachers and peers early in the writing process, so that they could incorporate the suggestions into their final work. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut. He is also the volunteer facilitator of a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Wally Lamb
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from our… (2003) 766 exemplares
I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison (2007) — Editor; Introdução — 245 exemplares
The Wally Lamb Fiction Collection: The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, We Are Water, and Wishin' and… (2014) 3 exemplares
I Know This Much Is True / She's Come Undone 1 exemplar
A Light In The Window 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contribuidor — 389 exemplares
Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird (2010) — Introdução — 265 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1950-10-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Mansfield, Connecticut, USA
- Educação
- University of Connecticut (BA|Education)
University of Connecticut (MA|Education)
Vermont College (MFA|Writing) - Ocupações
- director (Writing Center at the Norwich Free Academy)
Associate Professor (Creative Writing|University of Connecticut)
Author - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Governor’s Arts Award, Connecticut (1998)
NEA grant for fiction
Missouri Review William Peden fiction prize
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Wally Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife and three sons.
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Twin Brothers, one in mental hospital em Name that Book (Setembro 2012)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 30,216
- Popularidade
- #663
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 761
- ISBN
- 221
- Línguas
- 14
- Marcado como favorito
- 134
Dominic's life reminded me of a country song. You know the ones where anything that could go wrong eventually does. Consider: Dominic spent his entire life worrying about three things. One, who was his father? By not knowing his father Dominic feels he does not know himself. As a child he dreamed of his biological father and fantasized about the day this mystery man would swoop in and save him and Thomas from their abusive stepfather, Ray. Two, Dominic was convinced his mother loved his brother more. Maybe she really did because of Thomas's mental illness. On her deathbed she makes Dominic promise to look after Thomas, all the while refusing to reveal the true identity of their father. Three, Thomas's mental illness could be hereditary and sooner or later Dominic would inherit his brother's schizophrenia. Was he just as crazy as his brother and just not know it? All of these worries weigh on Dominic as he tries to cope. In giving up his own life to fulfill the promise he made to his mother his marriage falls apart and he quit his job as a history teacher (ironically, it is history that sets him free).
In order for this story to be successful the reader needed to be grounded in the current events of the time, otherwise Thomas's internal angst doesn't make sense. Eric Clapton's son falling from a window. Desert Storm. The beating of Rodney King. The world on fire. In addition to these unsettling times, Lamb throws in some equally difficult subjects like racism, AIDS, post traumatic stress suffered by veterans, diabetes, and of course, the complicated system of treating mental health.
I deeply love flawed characters; ones who find a way to change just enough that by the end of the book they are going to be okay, even if it is only somewhat okay. They haven't gone from devil to angel but their lives are not the disaster they once were.… (mais)