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About This Book:

Title: I Know This Much Is True

Other Available Formats:
Digital, -001
Audio Cassette, 1998
Hardcover, 1998
Hardcover, 1999
Paperback, 1999
Audio Cassette, 1999
Paperback, 2003
Paperback, 2008

Synopsis
A 40-year-old housepainter named Dominick Birdsey, from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, is the narrator of this long novel about the search for self-acceptance. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        901 Pages
Weight:        2.6 Pounds
Height:         9.8 Inches
Width:          6.5 Inches
Thickness:    1.8 Inches



Publisher Notes
Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny". From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness - and ultimately self-protection - in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. Through his grandfather's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of histwin.



Industry Reviews
"A probable commercial bonanza, but both twice as long and not as much as it should have been."
(05/01/1998)
"Within Wally Lamb's second book...there's a fine novel shouting to get out.... It's a novel of too little style and too much substance. ....Perhaps sweeping male anger is less fresh than its female equivalent. Or perhaps this 912-page tome simply needed an editor bold enough to persuade a talented novelist whose first book sold 3 million copies (thanks in large part to Oprah Winfrey's benediction) to trim the fat from the meat of its melodrama."
(05/26/1998)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is I Know This Much Is True and it was written by Wally Lamb. This edition of I Know This Much Is True is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is May 1998 and it has a suggested retail price of $27.5. There are 901 pages in the book and it was published by Regan Books. The 10 digit ISBN is 0060391626 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780060391621. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.