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She's Come Undone

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She's Come Undone

by Wally Lamb

Pocket Books | June 1, 1998 | Mass Market Paperbound

In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

Meet Dolores Price. She''s 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits 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 she really goes under.

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    Rating: 3/5

    "good"

    Reader1

    4 months ago

    received a ton of books for christmas. i decided to choose this one to start off my reading frenzy. always heard people buzzing about this book.

    i've never read a book where the protagonist is depressed extremely overweight. this is exactly the point that drew my interest. no more slim, athletic and attractive leader let's here a story from someone who is real. meet dolores price

    this book is moving, depressing, shocking and exciting. you will cry and cheer for dolores' life. the author is excellent at being the voice of young woman.
    good story to get into, easy read and a lot of emotions will run through you. i couldn't wait to get to the end to see where her life would take her.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Surprised by how much I loved it!

    SM

    5 months ago

    I really did not like the book throughout most of the first half and I did not think that I would finish the book. I had trouble "digesting" the main character, Dolores.

    However, at some point, I cannot pinpoint it, I became truly engrossed and I began to love the main character. I was sucked in, and I couldn't bear to put the book down.

    I'm so glad I stuck with this book.

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    Tanya Eubanas

    Rating: 5/5

    Phenomenal.

    Tanya Eubanas

    2 years ago

    Wally Lamb writes amazingly. He manages to portray the darker side of humanity with such ease and incredibility that he can make you want to laugh. cry, and feel disgusted all at the same time. He is a one-of-a-kind author.

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    Lisa

    Rating: 5/5

    Excellent Read!

    Lisa

    12 years ago

    I loved this book! I didn't want it to end. I loved Dolores' character. I would have liked her to have the baby she so much wanted though. Very well written. I couldn't put it down!

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Delve into the extraordinary world of 13-year-old Dolores Price. In She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb has created a comical and bittersweet heroine who tries to come of age in the sixties, when hippies and pot are the last thing on poor Dolores' mind. No, 13-year-old Dolores has to contend with a mentally-ill mother, an abusive father and the fact that she was raped in a dog pound by a local DJ. She spends her "glorious" teenaged years eating and eating in front of the TV. When she reaches the weight of 257 pounds as a young woman, life still holds misery - but Dolores isn't going to give up that easily. She's determined to give herself one more chance to find herself and her place in the world.

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In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

Meet Dolores Price. She''s 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits 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 she really goes under.

About the Author

Wally Lamb''s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Pushcart Prize XV: Best of the Small Presses; The Best of the Small Presses; The Best of the Missouri Review; Streetsongs 1: New Voices in Fiction; Northeast and The New York Times Magazine. He is the recipient of an NEA grant for fiction, and is a Missouri Review William Peden fiction prize winner. A nationally honored teacher of writing, and a graduate of the Vermont College MFA''s Writing Program, Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife and their three children. He is also the author of I Know This Much Is True.

Mass Market Paperbound

480 Pages, 4.19 x 6.75 x 0.99 in

June 1, 1998

Pocket Books

English


0671021001
9780671021009

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