Product Details
Washington Square Press, December 1996
Trade Paperback, 480 pages
ISBN-10: 0671003755
ISBN-13: 9780671003753
Description
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.
GlamourA heroine to cheer for....This supremely touching journey to adulthood may remind you of The World According to Garp and other sagas of emotional liberation.
PeopleThere are at least two surprises in store for readers of Lamb's memorable debut novel. One is the author's sex. This male writes so convincingly in the voice of a female, tracing her life from 4 to 40, that you have to keep looking back at the jacket picture just to make sure. The second surprise is how such a string of trials and tribulations can add up to such a touchingly funny book...
New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, June 20, 2009
...Wally Lamb's empathy for incarcerated women and his commitment to prison reform are again apparent in his latest work A Wally Lamb novel is never light, either to read or ...
The Detroit Free Press, January 26, 2009
...Lamb returns with Columbine Wally Lamb's first novel, 'She's Come Undone,' and his second novel, 'I Know This Much Is True,' both made it to the top of the New York Times best-seller ...
Globe and Mail, January 20, 2009
...Wally Lamb hit the jackpot when his first two novels, She's Come Undone (1992) and I Know This Much is True (1998), were selected for Oprah's Book Club. Both ...
Hartford Advocate, January 12, 2009
...Wally Lamb owes Oprah two nights' sleep In June of 1997, millions of readers filed into bookstores to participate in another of Oprah's book clubs. The Oprah gravitational pull had ...
St. Petersburg Times, December 20, 2008
...Bestselling author (She's Come Undone) and Oprah favorite Wally Lamb tries to put the world on his plate, with limited success. To the main course, a failing marriage, he has added 9/11 ...
Globe and Mail, December 20, 2008
...Last week in Denver, Wally Lamb encountered what he had fearfully anticipated. His new novel, The Hour I First Believed, is an ambitious, 700-page examination of good and evil with a disaffected cynic, Caelum Quirk ...
