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She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) |  | Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Rating:  1717 reviews
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 480
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0671021001
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671021009
ASIN: 0671021001
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
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Amazon.com Review
Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1997: "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." So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. 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. But Dolores is no quitter; she battles her woes with a sense of self-indulgence and gluttony rivaled only by Henry VIII. Hers is a dysfunctional Wonder Years, where growing up in the golden era was anything but ideal. While most kids her age were dealing with the monumental importance of the latest Beatles single and how college turned an older sibling into a long-haired hippie, Dolores was grappling with such issues as divorce, rape, and mental illness. Whether you're disgusted by her antics or moved by her pathetic ploys, you'll be drawn into Dolores's warped, hilarious, Mallomar-munching world.
Product 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.
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 Wonderful novel February 5, 2010
Wendy Wicks (Des Moines, IA United States)
I read this years ago, and I still think of how much it moved me. Excellent read.
 Well-written, but terribly, terribly depressing beyond words February 3, 2010
sungieality
I cannot believe that Wally Lamb is the author of this book.
No, not because he is a MAN, and because "Goodness, I can't believe a MAN should have such insight into the struggles of WOMEN as to dare write a book from a woman's point of view!" Please. Men are capable of writing from a woman's point of view just as women may write from the man's point of view. Ever hear of a little book called "The Outsiders"?
No, I can't believe that he is the author of this book because it is truly a complete 180 from his wonderful, incredible second novel "I Know This Much Is True". I read that book first, and a good thing too, or I never would have picked up another book by Lamb. This book is in a word, depressing. In a few more words, it is almost entirely devoid of hope.
As many others have already mentioned, Dolores struggles from tragedy to tragedy without any kind of resolution or change in emotion. At times, she is flat-out unlikeable (particularly in the fat stages). When she finally begins to shed some baggage (both physically and metaphorically), she no longer even seems to be the same person. Usually when a character triumphs over some kind of adverse event, their natures stay relatively the same. In this book, I feel like I'm looking at a character with multiple-personality disorder. She goes from wacko to normal to wacko again. When she decides to stand up for herself (on VERY RARE occasions), it feels jumpy and random.
All this, and I haven't even gotten to the true meat of the story. I don't think she ever had a happy moment in the entire book. And yes, I did finish reading the book. When a person goes through as much as she has, it is unbelievable, UNBELIEVABLE, that she would not: a) change herself b) change her environment/situation c) give up. I mean really, those are essentially the choices she faced. But she never changed, she never tried to change her situation, and she just kept plodding from one disaster to the next. Sorry, Wally Lamb, I'm not buying it.
Favorite book of all time February 2, 2010
Brittney R. Graves (middle of nowhere Kansas)
When people ask me what my favorite movie or favorite song, I never have a clear answer. I name a few that fall within the favorite category. Not so when it comes to the topic of books. When someone asks me what my favorite book is, the answer is simple - Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone."
Read it and fall in love.
What an unfailingly annoying character January 9, 2010
Megan H. Mcconnell (Boulder, CO)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am generally an easily pleased reader, but I could not wait to finish this book. I found Dolores so annoying that she actually put me into a bad mood. She is dramatic, whiny, and self-absorbed. She never really improved, she just expressed the crazy in slightly different ways. If I had the ability to put a book down once I started, I would have done it with this book. Instead, I trudged through to the end, becoming more and more irritated with her character. The only redeeming quality of the book is that it does capture the long-felt impacts of traumatizing events, rather than having the main character go through a brief and trite journey to happiness as so many other books do.
One of my favorite's January 7, 2010
TracyK (washington dc)
I love this book, and never wanted to put it down. It's been a little while since I read it, but would recommend it to anyone as it's that memorable! I can't imagine anyone not identifying with the main character - everyone has experienced alienation and has been strongly motivated to search for what is real and true. This is beautifully written and you go through so many emotions with the main character, you just can't help but get drawn in.
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