I Know This Much Is True

Name: I Know This Much Is True
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Wally Lamb
ISBN: 9780060752286

Author: Wally Lamb

Narrator: Ken Howard

Abridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/10/2004

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Synopsis

#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 TodayDominick 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.

About Wally Lamb

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 selections of Oprah’s Book Club. Lamb edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself, I’ll Fly Away, and You Don’t Know Me, three volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for two decades. He lives in Connecticut.

About Ken Howard

Ken Howard received a Theatre World Award for his role as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and a Tony Award® for his performance in Child's Play. He has starred in four television series and appeared in many full-length features and made-for-television films.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Lee on 2007-08-30 09:52:06

Wally Lamb is amazing! I loved this book as much as his first, 'She's Come Undone.' I am waiting for him to write another novel!

AudiobooksNow review by Lisa on 2008-01-07 12:29:19

the characters are what make this book worth reading. i found there to be too many sub-stories which were drawn out in far too much detail. and way, way too much graphic sexual content for my liking - gratuitous filler. i wouldn't recommend this book.

Goodreads review by Always on March 19, 2024

I'm glad I finally finished because it was one of those books I kept thinking about when I was in the middle of it and I had trouble getting things done until I knew what would happen. I really enjoyed it, I think it's hard to write a book with such a complex story line which all ends up coming toge......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on December 12, 2017

This book just went rocketing to my all-time Favourites shelf. I cannot imagine spending over 20 hours reading a book and not loving it. On my eReader, this book was just 3 pages short of 900 pages, and not one paragraph, not one sentence, not one word in the book could be cut without doing the book......more

Goodreads review by Jennine on March 17, 2008

This is one of those books I read that has never left me. After I finished it I just sat in my chair and cryed for a long time. And I can't explain why exactly, as the ending was surprisingly hopeful. It explores the nature of close family relationships and how you can love someone and also hate the......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on February 26, 2013

Wally Lamb's second novel, I Know This Much Is True, was probably a result of the success of his first effort - She's Come Undone, which was selected by Oprah for her book club four years after its initial publication in 1992. His sophomore effort, published in 1998, also got stamped with Oprah's ro......more

Goodreads review by Traci on April 03, 2008

This is my favorite book ever. I was reading it while I lived in New York, during the 2 weeks I was holed up in my apartment in New Jersey recovering from the shock of 9/11 . . . adjusting to life all alone in a big city with just my baby daughter (who, at that time, I felt some ambivalence about) .......more