600 Hours of Edward, Craig Lancaster
600 Hours of Edward, Craig Lancaster
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600 Hours of Edward

Author: Craig Lancaster

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 6 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/14/2012

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

A thirty-nine-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder, Edward Stanton lives alone on a rigid schedule in the Montana town where he grew up. His carefully constructed routine includes tracking his most common waking time (7:38 a.m.), refusing to start his therapy sessions even a minute before the appointed hour (10:00 a.m.), and watching one episode of the 1960s cop show Dragnet each night (10:00 p.m.).But when a single mother and her nine-year-old son move in across the street, Edward’s timetable comes undone. Over the course of a momentous 600 hours, he opens up to his new neighbors and confronts old grievances with his estranged parents. Exposed to both the joys and heartaches of friendship, Edward must ultimately decide whether to embrace the world outside his door or retreat to his solitary ways.Heartfelt and hilarious, this moving novel will appeal to fans of Daniel Keyes’s classic Flowers for Algernon and to any reader who loves an underdog.

About Craig Lancaster

Craig Lancaster is a journalist who has worked at newspapers all over the country, including the San Jose Mercury News, where he served as lead editor for the paper’s coverage of the BALCO steroids scandal. He wrote 600 Hours of Edward—winner of a Montana Book Award honorable mention and a High Plains Book Award—in less than 600 hours during National Novel Writing Month in 2008. His other books include the novel The Summer Son and the short story collection Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. Lancaster lives in Billings, Montana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jules on August 19, 2018

As per usual, I’m sat here contemplating my review. I’m agog at how fortuitous it is that I came to read this book. I’m considering whether any of the characters were flamboyant, austere, tenacious, ostentatious, apoplectic, or exceptional. Through this book, I have discovered that I love the words......more

Goodreads review by Robert on October 30, 2013

For the first time in my life, I actually felt like a hypochondriac. And for a day I thought I had Asperger’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder, my every movement tracked and accounted for, as my social skills dropped off a precipitous edge, only to return to normal the next day. Edward Stan......more

Goodreads review by Carole on February 09, 2018

This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books. I liked this one. This book was a bit different from what I would normally pick up. I heard a few good things about it so I took a closer look once I noticed that it was available to borrow from Amazon through Prime Reading. I loved the......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on May 05, 2022

Loved loved loved this book! I literally cancelled my whole life while reading it as I just couldn't put it down. This book flows so well and I really felt that I was seeing the world through Edward's eyes so massive credit to the author. This book has left me feeling on a high and I can't wait to r......more

Quotes

“It’s a spare, elegantly crafted, whizz-bang of a book.” —Missoula Independent“…A nearly perfect combination of traditional literary elements, mixing crowd-pleasing sappiness with indie-friendly subversion, a masterful blend of character and action…” —Chicago Center for Literature and Photography“This endearing hero deserves the fine ending the author has bestowed on him.” —The Lively Times

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