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Lamb's new book is also a departure from She's Come Undone, an offbeat story of an overweight girl named Dolores. Ambitious and sprawling, I Know This Much Is True is a monster of a tale about twin brothers, one schizophrenic and one healthy, that covers a Forrest Gump-like time span and touches on issues ranging from Native American rights to child pornography. Lamb's ending is a triumph of simple beauty; unfortunately, many readers simply will not get that...
Like the U.S. in which he prospered for so long, from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, Rockefeller was an organism of some contradiction: his idealism and his rapacity, the good John D. and his evil twin, went partners with each other. The deeply pious Baptist Sunday-school teacher would work the rest of the week as a corporate Borgia--the worst of the "malefactors of great wealth," according to Teddy Roosevelt. In his parallel universe of philanthropy, the lipless, squinty skinflint would dispense hundreds of millions of dollars, which among many other things built the University of Chicago...
...certainly doesn't," says his twin...
...planet, as astronomers strongly suspect, its gaseous state and high gravity would make it an extremely inhospitable place. It also seems to be hurtling away into space at thousands of miles an hour, flung outward by the twin stars' combined gravity. That's the only reason it's visible at all: conventional planets are too close to their stars to be seen in the glare...
...twin duo of Lou and Jimmy Bevilacqua haveamazed Harvard fans in the past four years withshared talent and determination, and verydifferent, but equally effective, styles of play...