| I Know This Much Is True Contributor(s): Lamb, Wally (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061469084 ISBN-13: 9780061469084 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - Siblings - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (1.40 lbs) 928 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 25614 Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 46.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: #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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lamb, Wally: - Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hopin', and We Are Water. His first two works of fiction, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and |