It's a novel of too little style and too much substance. But Dominick's sorrow at the loss of a brother he can't control or save drowns in a wash of resentment and melodrama. Through the twins' aggressive attempts to wrench themselves into polar opposites, Lamb movingly explores their fears of becoming each other, and of being unable to live without each other. Narrated by an identical twin, the book recounts Dominick Birdsey's hard journey to come to terms with the paranoid schizophrenia of his brother Thomas, and his own helplessness in the face of it. Within Wally Lamb's second book, I Know This Much Is True, there's a fine novel shouting to get out. Wally Lamb's latest novel is stunning - and even that might be an understatement.This is a masterpiece. In his view, it's not just the present that's the 's also the ghosts of dysfunctional family members and your non-relationship with a mocking, sadistic God, whom you still turn to in times of trouble - which is all the time.Įvery now and then a book comes along that sets new standards for writers and readers alike. A modern-day Dostoyevsky with a pop sensibility. I Know This Much is True never grapples with anything less than life's biggest questions.
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