She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
››› Get audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: She's Come Undone ISBN: 0671021001 ISBN13: 9780671021009 Autor: Wally Lamb Rating: 3.6 of 5 stars (1114) counts Original Format: Paperback, 465 pages Download Format: PDF, FB2, MOBI, MP3. Published: June 28th 1998 / by Pocket / (first published August 24th 1992) Language: English Genre(s): Fiction- 2,600 users Contemporary- 251 users Womens Fiction >Chick Lit- 229 users
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.
About Author:
Wally Lamb is the author of She's Come Undone, The Hour I First Believed, and I Know This Much Is True. Two were featured as selections of Oprah's Book Club. Lamb is the recipient of the Connecticut Center for the Book's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Connecticut Bar Association's Distinguished Public Service Award, the Connecticut Governor's Art Award, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 1999 New England Book Award for Fiction, and the Missouri Review William Peden Fiction Prize. He was the director of the Writing Center at the Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut from 1989-1998, and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut’s English Department. He holds a B.A. in Education and an M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. Lamb has served as a volunteer facilitator for a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison for women, in Niantic, Connecticut since 1999. He has edited two collections of autobiographical essays entitled Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters (2003) and I'll Fly Away (2007). Lamb currently lives in Mansfield, Connecticut with his wife, Christine Lamb, and their three sons, Jared, Justin and Teddy.
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- I Know This Much Is True
- The Hour I First Believed
- We Are Water
- Wishin' and Hopin'
- Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
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Rewiews:
Jun 01, 2016 Laura Rated it: did not like it Recommends it for: Masochists Shelves: fiction I really, truly, honest-to-god am not exaggerating when I say this is one of the worst books I ever read while I was an adult. Lamb hasn't written an actual story so much as he's bound together a series of advice columns and chat show episodes dressed up in vague narrative form. The girl's father leaves! Then she gets raped! Then she gains weight! Then her roommate is mean to her! Then she hooks up with a bad boyfriend! Then some more bad things happen to her after that!
And more still after tha I really, truly, honest-to-god am not exaggerating when I say this is one of the worst books I ever read while I was an adult. Lamb hasn't written an actual story so much as he's bound together a series of advice columns and chat show episodes dressed up in vague narrative form. The girl's father leaves! Then she gets raped! Then she gains weight! Then her roommate is mean to her! Then she hooks up with a bad boyfriend! Then some more bad things happen to her after that! And more still after that! And on and on, ad nauseam. Someone should have told Lamb that dreaming up parade of horribles isn't the same as writing a novel. Save yourself 500 pages and watch a couple episodes of Dr. Phil instead. Awful, awful, awful book. If I could give it less than one star, I would. Addendum: Every so often, someone comes along and s this review as having spoilers. Complaining about spoilers in this review is, not to put too fine a point on it, really stupid. Most of the plot points I mention here are either in the actual cover copy of the book, in the Goodreads summary, or occur somewhere within the first ten pages or so. The rest are so vague (e.g., hooking up with a bad boyfriend -- a plot point that probably occurs in some form in, oh, half of the books ever written) that if you consider them "spoilers," I'm not really sure why you read book reviews at all. 227 likes 63 comments
Laura Mariya wrote: "This review sounds like book jacket for 'Series of Unfortunate Events' :D" Reading this book was an unfortunate event, that's for sure!
Aug 12, 2016 06:38PM
Julie I couldn't agree with you more! Horrible book. Read this years ago and have kept back from Wally Lamb novels ever since.
Jan 07, 2017 01:58AM
