Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizo
phrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love fo
r his damaged twin Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the knowled
ge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening beha
viour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane. But at w
hat cost? This powerful, heartwrenching drama draws on the deepest human emotion
s: the need to know oneself, responsibility to family, the influence of hidden h
istory. The result is a highly acclaimed novel of survival, written with great s
ensitivity.
