I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb audiobook

I Know This Much Is True

By Wally Lamb
Read by Ken Howard

HarperAudio
5.63 Hours Abridged
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    ISBN: 9780060752286

#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.   

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Summary

Summary

A #1 New York Times bestseller

A 1998 Oprah’s Book Club Selection

A 1998 New York Times Notable Book for Fiction

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

A USA Today bestseller

#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.   

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“[It] never grapples with anything less than life’s biggest questions. New York Times Book Review
“Heart-wrenching…an exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to twentieth-century America itself. It’s heard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget.”  USA Today
“Poignant…astonishing…[a] very good book. Washington Post Book World
“[A] tour de force that sweeps the reader along in its swift emotional current…A work of astonishing craftsmanship.”  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Thanks to well-sustained dramatic tension, funky gallows humor and some shocking surprises, this sinuous story of one family’s dark secrets and recurring patterns of behavior largely succeeds in its ambitious reach.” Publishers Weekly (starred view)

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Author

Author Bio: Wally Lamb

Author Bio: Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb is the author of the New York Times and national bestseller The Hour I First Believed, as well as the novels She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both #1 New York Times bestsellers and Oprah’s Book Club selections. He lives in Connecticut with his family.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 5.63
Audience: Adult
Language: English