{"product_id":"i-know-this-much-is-true-9780061469084","title":"I Know This Much Is True","description":"\u003cp\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\"--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDominick 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 the dark family 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 the generational trauma of his lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Know This Much Is True\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterfully told family saga of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--an unforgettable masterpiece. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wally Lamb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061469084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e25614 \/ I Know This Much Is True\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2008 pg. 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLamb, Wally:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWally Lamb \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of five \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling novels: \u003cem\u003eShe's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hopin', \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWe Are Water\u003c\/em\u003e. His first two works of fiction, \u003cem\u003eShe's Come Undone \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eI Know This Much Is True\u003c\/em\u003e, were both #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestsellers and selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb edited \u003cem\u003eCouldn't Keep It to Myself\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI'll Fly Away\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eYou Don't Know Me\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44411310637171,"sku":"9780061469084","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_3e5957fc-59f1-4ec5-ba8a-31e42ceaa556.jpg?v=1772024723","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/i-know-this-much-is-true-9780061469084","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}