Two of a Kind #04: One Twin Too Many
Author | : Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1999-04-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061065749 |
Mary-Kate and Ashley are interested in the same boy.
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Author | : Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1999-04-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061065749 |
Mary-Kate and Ashley are interested in the same boy.
Author | : Megan Stine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
ISBN | : 9780007667529 |
Author | : Wally Lamb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 1998-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780060391621 |
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Author | : Megan Stine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Love stories |
ISBN | : 9780758758996 |
Mary-Kate and Ashley become rivals for the attention of the same boy.
Author | : Megan Stine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
ISBN | : 9780007667529 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780007144778 |
Oh no Mary-Kate and Ashley have to do history projects. But Ashley's found a way to make her project fun - she's partners with Pokey Valentine, the boy of her dreams. It's the perfect way to get close to him. The only problem is, Pokey would rather get close to someone else... Mary-Kate
Author | : Abigail Pogrebin |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307279626 |
Journalist Abigail Pogrebin is many things—wife, mother, New Yorker—but the one that has defined her most profoundly is “identical twin.” As children, she and her sister, Robin, were inseparable. But when Robin began to pull away as an adult, Abigail was left to wonder not only why, but also about the very nature of twinship. What does it mean to have a mirror image? How can you be unique when somebody shares your DNA? In One and the Same, Abigail sets off on a quest to understand how genetics shape us, crisscrossing the country to explore the varied relationships between twins, which range from passionate to bitterly resentful. She speaks to the experts and tries to answer the question parents ask most—is it better to encourage their separateness or closeness? And she paints a riveting portrait of twin life, yielding fascinating truths about how we become who we are.
Author | : Florence Slobodkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Because the whole neighborhood knows the twin boys have lost a red mitten, whenever one is found it is taken to their house, until soon the twins must start a service to return surplus red mittens to their proper owners.
Author | : Natasha Preston |
Publisher | : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2024-09-26 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1471418057 |
Get ready for another heart-racing, twist-filled thriller from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author NATASHA PRESTON. CAN YOU TRUST YOUR OWN TWIN? After their parents divorced, 10-year-old twins Ivy and Iris were split up - Ivy lived with Dad, Iris with Mum. But after a tragic accident takes their mum's life, the devastated sisters are reunited when Iris moves in with Ivy and their dad. Iris takes their mum's death especially hard, unwilling to speak to anyone except Ivy. Unable to stand seeing Iris so sad, Ivy promised her that she can share her life now. After all, they're sisters. Twins. It's a promise that Iris takes seriously. And before long, Ivy's friends, her teachers, and even her boyfriend all fall under Iris's spell. Slowly, Ivy feels she's being pushed out of her own life, but tells herself she's being paranoid. Iris isn't dangerous . . . is she?
Author | : Valerie R. Samuels |
Publisher | : Trafford on Demand Pub |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781412060363 |
A book for young children who have experienced the death of their twin sibling. Story of love and loss told through the eyes of a young girl whose twin died when they were infants.