She's come undone [eBook - NC Digital Library

In this New York Times bestselling 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. "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 thirteen, 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, 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. Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O; and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. This is a coming-of-age novel in which the very human spirit of Delores Price overcomes tremendous odds to find peace and self-acceptance. After spending years in teenage seclusion, she emerges into womanhood, overweight and cynical. Is she ready for the world and is the world ready for her? Eating Herself Into Obesity In The Wake Of Her Lost Childhood And Over-anxious Mother, Dolores Price Finds Herself Facing Adulthood In A Cruel World And Resolves To Rise To The Occasion. By Wally Lamb. IN ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES, MY MOTHER AND I ARE ON the front porch of our rented Carter Avenue house watching two delivery men carry our brand-new television set up the steps. Thirteen-year-old Dolores Price Spends Most Of Her Time Eating And In Front Of The Tv, But Changes Her Attitude When She Enters Womanhood At 257 Pounds. By Wally Lamb.