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
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ISBN:0060391626
ISBN:9780060391621
Physical Description:ix, 901 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York, New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.