Bibliograph

She's come undone, Wally Lamb

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She's come undone, Wally Lamb

Language

eng

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Intended audience

760, Lexile

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

She's come undone

Responsibility statement

Wally Lamb

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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.2, 22.0, 18429.Reading Counts RC, High School, 7.5, 27, Quiz: 10307, Guided reading level: NR.

Summary

"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

Target audience

adult

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