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EAN: 9780060191191
ISBN: 0060191198
Label: ReganBooks
Manufacturer: ReganBooks
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1998-04
Publisher: ReganBooks
Sales Rank: 726020
Studio: ReganBooks
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane. But at what cost? This powerful, heartwrenching drama draws on the deepest human emotions: the need to know oneself, responsibility to family, the influence of hidden history. The result is a highly acclaimed novel of survival, written with great sensitivity.
Amazon.com Review:
Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of I Know This Much Is True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to take parenting tips from the SS and his grandmother was a possible teenage murderess, his stepfather a latent sadist, and his brother, Thomas, a politically motivated psychopath. Not one to break with tradition, Dominick continues the dysfunctional legacy with rape, a failed marriage, a nervous breakdown, SIDS, a car crash, and a racist conspiracy against a coworker--just to name a few.
A stretch, both literally and figuratively from his Oprah-christened bestseller, She's Come Undone, Lamb's book ventures outside the confines of the tightly bound beach read and marathons through a detailed, neatly cataloged account of every familial travesty and personal failure one can endure. At its heart lies Freud's "return of the repressed": the more we try to deny who we are, the more we become what we fear. Lamb takes Freud's psychological abstraction to the realm of everyday living, packing his novel with tender, believable dialogue and thoughtful observation. --Rebekah Warren
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- Truly PhenomenalA fascinating well written novel centering on a pair of identical twins, I Know this Much Is True is a tale of epic proportions. The story is about the tension between a pair of identical twins. Dominick is normal and Thomas is a very sick paranoid schizophrenic. Lamb ,who tells the story in flashbacks, suceeds in creating several multi-dimensional characters and unusual plot twists. I was hesitant about reading an Oprah selection, because many of the novels she selects are so mass market. Not ... Read More
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- FantasticI just finished this book two minutes ago and had to review it. What an amazing read. I hadn't read a novel in a really long time, but this one did not feel like the 880-page monster it looks like (in hardcover). I loved it.
Rating:
- This Much Is TrueI went into this book blind. I have not read "She's Come Undone". I was a little intimidated by the size of the book to begin with. I also read some reviews that said that all 900 pages were not needed.
I couldn't disagree more. I enjoyed nearly every page of this book. I have not wanted to put down the book since I started. I think this was very well written and I look forward to reading more of his work.
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- Fascinating bookThis very entertaining book "I know This Much Is True" is 900 pages. Long read by anyone's standards, but I enjoyed every page. It's one man's search of the self. It's starts off with a gruesome seen of the character Thomas actually slicing off his hand. He claims it's what God wanted .It kind of goes hand to hand with another book I'm reading that's non-fiction about what God wants entitled "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone" by John H. Eagan. I ... Read More
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- ******To put it simply, I read a lot of books - fiction, nonfiction, some best-seller fluff once in a while - and this is my favorite book ever.
I had it with me on a trip through Norway, and instead of watching the amazing landscape, the mountains, the fjords, etc... I was reading this book because I couldn't put it down.
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