I Know This Much Is True

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On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. . . .

One of the most acclaimed novels of our time, Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True is a story of alienation and connection, devastation and renewal, at once joyous, heartbreaking, poignant, mystical, and powerfully, profoundly human.

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"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

"A gratifying saga of loss and redemption." -- People

"[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." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Dominick Birdsey is an epic hero and his story an inspiring, darkly comic tale of redemption--a late twentieth-century Les Miserables." -- Glamour

"Never grapples with anything less than life's biggest questions. . . . Lamb clearly aims to be a modern-day Dostoevsky with a pop sensibility." -- New York Times Book Review

"A fully developed and triumphantly resolved exploration of one man's suffering and redemption." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

"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." -- Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers

"The saga of the century. Best, most wonderful, most dramatic, most powerful. There are no superlatives impressive enough to describe this, another Lamb masterpiece." -- Oakland Press

"You couldn't ask for a more beguiling summer read." -- Entertainment Weekly

Author Bio

Wally Lamb is the beloved author of Shes Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, and the editor of Couldnt Keep It To Myself, a previous volume of writing from the writing workshop he runs at the York Correctional Institution.