In the latter novel, I was also a turn-of-the-century Sicilian immigrant. Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True About two months ago, in a meeting of the Literary Group, I held out my opinion that tellers of stories wrote best when they had lived the life they were writing about.
I cited Sinclair Lewis as the prime example. It is a firm belief I have held. Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels.
Saw them shoot an amazing scene in which Dominick visits Thomas at the psych hospital after his self-mutilation. His sixth, I'll Take You There, will be released next year. Download ePub Download Fb2. Grab a book or a beer Grab a book or a beer.
Saw them shoot an amazing scene in which Dominick visits Thomas at the psych hospital after his self-mutilation Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels. A couple months ago my book club read Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb. A few of the members raved about his other books, although they found them quite different from his Christmas story. I read on my iPhone during my lunch hour and started this book with great anticipation.
The first chapter is quite gruesome but sets the tone for all that is to come. If you can get yourself through the beginning, I'm pretty sure you can get through the rest. I kept reading. And reading. The percent read that my kindle happily tracks for me, barely moved. Day after day I watched my barely existent progress. When I'd had enough I finally checked the statistics of the book. It has a whopping pages!
But I persisted. Thomas and Dominic are twins, one born on December 31st and the other born on January 1st. 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. 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.
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 Tru e is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece. JavaScript error encountered. In , in the Three Rivers Public Library, paranoid schizophrenic Thomas Birdsey amputates his right hand to end the growing war in Iraq.
His identical twin, Dominick, the novel's anger-filled narrator, becomes his full-time advocate against a politically-motivated bureaucracy, in alliance with quirky caseworker Lisa Sheffer and psychologist, Dr.
Rubina Patel, who soon begins treating Dominick's own anxieties over a broken marriage and a lifelong jealousy of Thomas for having been their mother's obvious favorite. As an adult, Dominick still hates his violent stepfather Ray and longs to know who his biological father is. Much of the novel is devoted to flashbacks to the twins' difficult upbringing, spanning the Cold War and Vietnam War. Loved each and every part of this book.
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