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About the Author
Wally Lamb’s first novel She’s Come Undone received rave reviews when it was published in 1992. The Book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards’ Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction and was named as one of the most notable books of the year by numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review and People magazine. A graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing program, Lamb currently teaches at the University of Connecticut. He is the recipient of an NEA grant for fiction and a Missouri Review William Peden fiction prize winner. A nationally honored teacher of writing, he lives in Connecticut with his wife and their three sons.
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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1998 by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. Other names, characters, places, and incidents portrayed herein are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictionally.
Portions of I Know This Much Is True, some in slightly or substantially different versions, have appeared in the following publications: Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Missouri Review, Northeast Magazine, and USA Weekend.
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* “Being poor is no excuse for being filthy.” —NF
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* “The world is made of stairs: there are those who go up and those who go down.” —NF
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* “I don’t understand a frigging thing you’re saying, Domenico.” (approx.) —NF
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** “Fucking! Fucking!” —NF
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*”Being poor is no excuse for being filthy.”—NF
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* “If you have gunpowder, shoot!” —NF
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* ”The Little Queen” —NF
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* The tongue has no bones but can break a man’s back! —NF
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*Duplex house —NF
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* ”Better single than unhappily married.” Translator’s note: The original sentence, partially crossed out, reads “Better to die single than to have to fuck a monk
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* “An old hen makes the best soup.” —NF
** Roughly, “Cook squash any way you like, but it’s still squash.” —NF