![]() Take it from the uncrazy twin the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Get used to Letterman’s gap toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. And if you’re into both survival of the fittest and being your brother’s keeper if you’ve promised your dying mother them say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. When you’re the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands the little inconvenience of the look alike corpse at your feet. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. ![]() A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with ‘ I Know This Much Is True,’ a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. With his stunning debut novel, ‘She’s Come Undone, ‘ Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one womans painful yet triumphant journey of self discovery. ![]() She’s Come Undone includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price. At once a fragile girl and a hard edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably lovable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections. In this extraordinary coming of age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical hero*ine to come along in years. But this time she’s determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallmomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. She’s 13, wise mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. ‘Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered…
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