Big news, everyone. The HBO TV adaptation of Wally Lamb's beloved New York Times bestselling novel I Know This Much Is True will premier this Sunday, May 10th, at 9pm ET. Check out the trailer below and find out more about the TV series here.
I Know This Much Is True follows Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, who finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of violence. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself. I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.
Just check out some of the praise Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True has garnered:
"Thoughtful…heart-wrenching…An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It’s hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget."
—USA Today
"A gratifying saga of loss and redemption."
—People
"Never grapples with anything less than life’s biggest questions…. Lamb clearly aims to be a modern-day Dostoevsky with a pop sensibility."
—New York Times Book Review
"A fully developed and triumphantly resolved exploration of one man’s suffering and redemption."
—Publishers Weekly starred review
Get your copy of I Know This Much Is True here.
-Chris