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I Know This Much Is True

Written 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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I enjoyed this. Fabulous story, great reading. The talking in the background was very distracting!

Background noise

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My niece has the book and I realised that the audio book is not complete! They took a large part out: the grandfather's biography is in the paper book but was not read! This is very disapointing. It is though a very good book, Ken Howard has the intonation, the different voices were perfect, although for me, he reads a little too fast.

Not Complete!!

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I loved this book! Endearing characters and a glimpse into the life of twins and schizophrenia. Have read it several times and never tire of it.

Amazing!

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I loved it, narrator was excellent. It had me interested immediately; I listened for 2.5 hours from the start.

Sad-isfying

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Lovely book but not a good audiobook. Mumble in the background which is very distracting.

Mumble in the background

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