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I Know This Much Is True Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Wally Lamb

The phenomenal #1 "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club( pick is now in mass market paperback. This spellbinding novel of responsibility and family, betrayal and redemption is an exquisitely written, profoundly human masterpiece.


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#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection

"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling--with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." -- USA Today

Dominick 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 dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself--a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily's Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and 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 story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--an unforgettable masterpiece.

First line

On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable.

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"On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. . . "

One of the most acclaimed novels of our time, Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True is a story of alienation and connection, devastation and renewal, at once joyous, heartbreaking, poignant, mystical, and powerfully, profoundly human.

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  • Title I Know This Much Is True
  • Author Wally Lamb
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 928
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, NY USA
  • Date 2008-04-08
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780061469084 / 0061469084
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • People Weekly, 12/01/2008, Page 61
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