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She's Come Undone

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She's Come Undone Wally Lamb $7.99 Pocket Books (1998) ISBN: 0671021001 465 pages average review: Reviews: This gets: a from samantha : Whether the reader is depressed and needs empathy or is strong and full of life, this book is enlightening. A girl's journey through her miserable and lonely adolescence into adulthood, where she finds herself and plants her feet in the ground. It's definitely a tearjerker. I personally found it depressing regardless, but my sister loved it. It's easy reading written in everyday language. I'd recommend it. From the back cover: Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallmomars, potato chips, 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 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. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably lovable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections. She's Come Undone includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price. eryka.com scale: So good you just can't stand it. Almost that good. Sort of good. Generally a waste of time. Destined for the recycler. If you'd like to review this book, or another, click here Similar books by category: from new england | american Go home | Go to fiction home © 2002 eryka.com. All rights reserved.