The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel

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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel

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Another timeline, which tells of Sam’s current struggles, weaves nicely in and out of the main narrative. A book inspired by both a small newspaper article that the author read about a boy who was denied admittance into a Catholic School in Australia, because of his Ocular Albinism, AND the author’s own parents and siblings, who embraced and loved the youngest of the Dugonis- Michael, and refused to allow the words “Down’s Syndrome” to be what defined the person they all love!

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell : A Novel - Google Books

The modern sense of the idiom is “to succeed; to have the ability to do something; to come up to expectations”. There are other extraordinary characters who embody what unconditional love is, what friendship truly means. After a strong earthquake jolts the city and kills Eva, Sam is left wondering what to do with his life.I have long loved the writing that Dugoni puts out and find myself completely captivated by his current series set in Seattle. As a child, Sam Hell was bullied and discriminated against for his unusual red eyes, bold evidence of his ocular albinism. David was mean and stayed mean, and Sam carried the memories of being his earliest victim with him through the years as if they became part of his DNA. This dungeon life on the playground was monitored by fellow classmate, David Freemon, who held court in the bathrooms and under the bleechers to dole out physical punishment on a daily basis. Those were the four words, uttered by Samuel’s father, when he laid eyes on his infant son for the very first time-a baby born with ocular albinism, a rare condition which gave him red pupils.

Sam Hell | Robert Dugoni Sam Hell | Robert Dugoni

A lot of people don't realize that this is the same author who wrote the popular Tracy Crosswhite series and the Charles Jenkins series and the David Sloane series. He is not married, he’s divorced, he is not involved in his children’s life because he is trying to work his way up the FSB.

ROBERT DUGONI delivers an inspirational and beautifully written story here with wonderful characters and short chapters to make this a quick and easy read.

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel - Seattle Book Review The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel - Seattle Book Review

As he tells in the early part of the story, the love his parents showed him was unlike anything else in the world. She certainly doesn’t run from confrontation when six-year-old Sam is rejected from attending Our Lady of Mercy by the principal, Sister Beatrice. When a tragedy hits close to home, he has to change the course of his life and become the man his mother always knew he would be, and he learns to keep people at a distance so he doesn't get hurt—although that doesn't always guarantee emotional safety. The middle part was good too, but the book started to drain me of my interest when it got to be such a prolonged, dragged out and sentimental ending. To sum it all up it was an interesting, insightful, unforgettable, emotional, and an enjoyable read with a satisfying ending.I felt much more could have been accomplished with the story of his childhood bully coming back into his life, instead this is quickly glossed over. Give me my son,' my mother had said amid the silent stares, whereupon the nurse had swaddled me in a blanket and handed me to her. She was his fierce protector, for as long as she could be, but eventually Samuel would have to attend school at the “Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church”, where his mother can go only as far as the steps leading into the classrooms. As hew grew, Sam and Ernie remained the best of friends, soon adding Michaela ‘Mickie’ Kennedy to their brood.



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