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  • Unbelievable!

  • I know other people have stated this, but I really can not believe that the writer of this book is a man. It really spoke to me on a deeper level and as I was reading it I thought I could almost feel the heart and soul of this woman.

    Wally Lamb is a gifted writer.

    

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• ― Charleighh78 said on Nov 26, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Inscribed by the author, "For Rebecca--In celebration of the goals and realities of Literacy Volunteers. All best, Wally Lamb 4/22/93"

    

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  • At times I really disliked Dolores. I think the book was very well written, however, I didn't necessarily enjoy it. I think Lamb did a wonderful job of making the reader feel what Dolores was going through. I am glad I finished it, but probably won't recommend it to others.

    

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• ― SheReads said on Mar 5, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...."

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 Mallomars, 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, 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.

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