Best, most wonderful, most dramatic, most powerful. Wally Lamb's latest novel is stunning-and even that might be an understatement.this is a masterpiece." - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers "Every now and then a book comes along that sets new standards for writers and readers alike. “A fully developed and triumphantly resolved exploration of one man’s suffering and redemption.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
Lamb clearly aims to be a modern-day Dostoevsky with a pop sensibility." - New York Times Book Review "Never grapples with anything less than life’s biggest questions. "Dominick Birdsey is an epic hero and his story an inspiring, darkly comic tale of redemption-a late twentieth-century Les Miserables." - Glamour " tour de force that sweeps the reader along in its swift emotional current.A work of astonishing craftsmanship, structural symmetry, and literary self-awareness.Read it and weep." - St. “A gratifying saga of loss and redemption.” - People It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." - USA Today " exercise in soul-baring storytelling-with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal-an unforgettable masterpiece. 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. 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. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." - USA Todayĭominick 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. An exercise in soul-baring storytelling-with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. ‘Lamb creates a nuanced picture of a flawed but decent man.#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection Wally Lamb’s latest novel is stunning - and even that might be an understatement’Associated Press. ‘Every now and then a book comes along that sets new standards for writers and readers alike. ‘I Know This Much Is True never grapples with anything less than life’s biggest questions… a modern-day Dostoyevsky’New York Times.
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