{"product_id":"9780061469084","title":"I Know This Much Is True : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eI Know This Much Is True\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Wally Lamb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003e#1 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\"  — \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Know This Much Is Tru\u003c\/em\u003ee is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e“A gratifying saga of loss and redemption.”\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Dominick Birdsey is an epic hero and his story an inspiring, darkly comic tale of redemption--a late twentieth-century Les Miserables.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Never grapples with anything less than life’s biggest questions. . . . Lamb clearly aims to be a modern-day Dostoevsky with a pop sensibility.\"\u003cbr\u003e“A fully developed and triumphantly resolved exploration of one man’s suffering and redemption.”\u003cbr\u003e\"Every now and then a book comes along that sets new standards for writers and readers alike. Wally Lamb's latest novel is stunning--and even that might be an understatement...this is a masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The saga of the century. Best, most wonderful, most dramatic, most powerful. There are no superlatives impressive enough to describe this, another Lamb masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"You couldn’t ask for a more beguiling summer read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061469084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41045501444302,"sku":"9780061469084","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061469084.jpg?v=1648005013","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061469084","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}