I Know This Much Is True e-bog
97,26 DKK
(inkl. moms 121,58 DKK)
#1New York TimesBestseller and Oprah Book Club selection"e;Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytellingwith the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget."e; USA Today Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life great...
E-bog
97,26 DKK
Forlag
HarperCollins e-books
Udgivet
17 marts 2009
Længde
928 sider
Genrer
Fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780061745799
#1New York TimesBestseller and Oprah Book Club selection"e;Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytellingwith the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget."e; 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 himselfa journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicilys 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 renewalan unforgettable masterpiece.