I Know This Much Is True (136 page)

Authors: Wally Lamb

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A LIST OF SOURCES CONSULTED

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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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ALSO BY WALLY LAMB

Always Begin Where You Are: Themes in Poetry and Song
(nonfiction)
She’s Come Undone
(fiction)

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Credits

Cover based on an original design by David High / High Design Cover Photograph © by David Teplica, M.D., MFA, courtesy The Collected Image, Evanston, Ill, The Carson Group, Denver, CO.

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Notes

* “Being poor is no excuse for being filth
y.” —NF

* “The wor
ld is made of stairs: there are those who go up and those who go down.”

—NF

* “I don
’t understand a frigging thing you’re saying, Domenico.” (approx.) —NF

** “
Fucking! Fucking!” —NF

* “
If you have gunpowder, shoot!” —NF

* “The Little Q
ueen” —NF

* The tongue has no bones but c
an break a man’s back! —NF

*
Duplex house —NF

* “
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 monkey.”

—NF

* “A
n old hen makes the best soup.” —NF

** Roughl
y, “Cook squash any way you like, but it’s still squash.” —NF

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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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First ReganBooks/HarperPerennial edition published in 1999.

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