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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Engaging story about a girl who has typical adolescent problems who carries those heartaches up through middle age. I shared her pain and joy as the story unfolded and loved every minute of it. ( )A-M-A-Z-I-N-G book. I couldn't put it down. Things just kept happening and there isn't even one boring page in this book. Sometimes you come across a book which makes you forget you're reading a book. You think about the characters when you're away from them, wonder how they are doing, hoping they'll make the right choices, or what what the hell they're doing with their life. This is an amazing book that makes you forget about your own life for a short while and makes you really, really see how another person life's is just as hard and full of problems, even after looking peachy from the outside. Good read. I read another of the author's books, I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE and found it quite disturbing and needing an editor. I eagerly began She's Come Undone because of the buzz and also because I thought it might be a trainwreck of dysfunction. I was proved wrong. There were parts where I balked at the action - either it was derivative or came out of the author's obsessions - but the skillful writing more than saved this book. The protagonist, Dolores Price, is raised in an environment where she is forgotten by her parents because they have their own problems they are unable to navigate all that well. She is raised by TV and on junk food and left to fend for herself. She survives as best she can while facing rejection and violation. There are people in her life to whom she is able to reach out for help and when she's in need - it's these people who come through for her. Dolores might not be a typical young heroine because she's had so much adversity that it makes her in many ways unattractive to those seeking a superficial novel with dates, proms, and happily ever after. Instead, her story is one of overcoming obstacles and personal growth. 0.441 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0671021001, Mass Market Paperback)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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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