I Know This Much Is True
Author: Wally Lamb
Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin Dominick Birdsey’s whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frighteningbehaviour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds….Read More
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