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I Know This Much Is True

By: Wally Lamb
Narrated by: Ken Howard
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection

""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."" — USA Today

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.

I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.

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it was a great book until the last few hours when you could hear someone else narrating another bookin the background for the last fewhours. it was very distracting and ruined the book for me.

great story with a porr narration recording.

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I have read this book twice now listened and cannot wait for the interpretation into film.

Soon to be a movie

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Lamb captures the humanity and reality of severe, enduring mental illness, the commonness of lives fraught with uncertainty, imperfection and ambivalence, and the fragile peace that can be found in self-forgiveness. The story is rich with metaphor and allegory.

Rapprochement

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The story at times felt like rambling but had some deep messages in there. The most frustrating thing about this audiobook though was there was often another voice in the background, it extremely distracting at times, however the narrator spoke with a strong clear voice.

A good story to reflect on

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Pretty poor audio quality, but what a fantastic story. Lamb touches on a range of subjects, from race, to sanity, from religion, to family, and much between. It trots along at a quick pace and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. 5 star stuff.

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