She's Come Undone
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4.4 • 41 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the chocolate, crisps and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up.
In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch an incredible ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably loveable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this engaging first novel, narrator Dolores Price recounts her life story from age four to age 40; her relentless parade of disasters makes for interesting reading.
Customer Reviews
She's come undone - beautifully
Another masterpiece from Wally Lamb. He writes with soul and immerses the reader under the skin of his subject. I laughed, cried, empathised and came undone with the truthfulness of the good and bad in us all. Brilliant.