Format:
Book
Author:
Lamb, Wally.
Title:
I know this much is true / Wally Lamb.
Edition:
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2008.
Description:
viii, 901, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
Subjects:
Italian Americans -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Mentally ill -- Fiction.
Twin brothers -- Fiction.
New England -- Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Notes:
Reprint with new "P.S." section. Previously published: New York, NY : Regan Books, 1998.
Includes an interview with the author.
"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--"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 899-901).
ISBN:
9780061469084
0061469084
9780060987565
0060391626
0060987561
0965605914
Other Number:
156816535
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
616139
Call Number:
FICTION Lamb
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
4
# System items in:
4