I Know This Much is True Resources
Websites
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Need more dysfunction? Wally Lamb's got a book for that.
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We could call I Know This Much is True a hand-book (because Thomas chops off his hand), but we're not that cheesy. Okay, we are. So from hand-book to Facebook, here's Lamb's official Facebook page.
Movie or TV Productions
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We know this much is true: As of 2014, there's no I Know This Much is True movie. But Samantha Highfill of Entertainment Weekly thinks it would be a blockbuster.
Articles and Interviews
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"But a life experience." At least that's what Oprah thinks about her June 1998 Book Club selection.
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Publisher's Weekly may just give one star, but it doesn't sprinkle them out all willy-nilly.
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Lamb gives props to Oprah for putting not one, but two, of his books on the bestseller lists.
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The discovery of Dominick's father was just as much of a journey for Lamb as it is for Dominick in the book.
Video
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No, there's no Bobby Brown here; Joan Mackenzie uses the new edition of I Know This Much is True (with a snazzy new cover) to do a quick review of the novel.
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Okay, Lamb doesn't actually sound like a sheep, but in this clip, he does talk frankly about his writing process.
Audio
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Wally Lamb has a favorite audiobook reader: George Guidall. He reads both I Know This Much is True and The Hour I First Believed.
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The 1950s, the 1990s, male protagonists, racism, teaching, and public radio.
Images
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This is the newspaper article from Mamie Eisenhower's visit to Groton, CT… but we can't spot Dominick and Thomas in the photo.
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Here's a Time magazine cover of the Persian Gulf crisis, the event that drives Thomas to chop off his own hand.