She's Come Undone

She's Come Undone

1992 • 465 pages

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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.

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Gave up around page 299 after trying too long to give the book a chance. There were multiple days I didn't read it at all because of how much I wasn't enjoying it.

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High-low melodrama,
Sustained sublime passages,
Peak Bildungsroman.
Oprah was right.

June 3, 2019

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