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| She's Come Undone | 
 enlarge | Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  297 reviews
Sales Rank: 93332
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0684860090
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780684860091
Publication Date: December 6, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
"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 among the most loathsome creatures ever to go by the name of man. But Dolores is no quitter; she battles her woes with a sense of self-indulgence and gluttony rivalled 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.
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 ! July 9, 2008
I read two or three books a week, every week. And although i often think i'm going to save 'this book' to read again, 'She's Come Undone' is the only one that I have pulled off the shelf twice (in fact three times!) This is my favourite book ever, and not because it's easy reading, or takes me to a different world. This book is real, too real, in fact so real that i have given it to friends who phone me crying half way through because they think it was written for them; how is Wally Lamb a bloke???? If you have ever felt bad cos you are too fat, or cos you are not included in the beautiful/cool gangs, then this book is for you. Wally Lamb, in this and his subsequent book, is a magnificent wordsmith and truly understands people. This book truly changed my life, and saved me a small fortune in therapy.
HIs second best work is still better than most writer's first November 16, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you haven't read "I Know This Much is True," run, don't walk to get it. Then get this book---"She's Come Undone." While I loved Lamb's "I Know" this book comes in second, and that' still better than most other's books.
The story is about one horrible human being named Dolores, but don't be turned off by that. Lamb sucks you right into her world and how he writes "women" so well is beyond me.
There are laugh out loud funny parts of this novel, and if you're reading it on the Tube, you might want to watch yourself--I know I had a lot of blokes staring at me. I also missed a couple of stops simply because I couldn't stop reading. But I digress.
About Dolores: She's not likable, but somehow Lamb gets us to read about her. And he adds in rape, emotional abuse, and a couple of deaths and you begin to get the picture of WHY Dolores is the way she is.
Lamb truly unravels the human heart in "She's Come Undone" and other than his first book, which I've just given a plug to, I would also recommend the highly controversial and entertaining "Bark of the Dogwood" which is every bit as good and involved. Not exactly the same subject but treated every bit as good if not better.
She's Come Undone and it's not about the song November 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How any author could make Dolores Price likeable is beyond me, but Wally Lamb has done so. She's obese, foul-mouthed, and not much to look at, and on top of that, she's pretty disgusting. Wally Lamb somehow gets us to look at her world through her eyes and we end up being better educated for it. Not a short book, but readable and enjoyable.
Thought Provoking April 2, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Dolores must be one of the best characters ever written - sad, crazy, feisty, lonely. Wally Lamb must be a genius to be able to get inside a woman's head so convincingly. This book is both funny and sad, intelligent yet easy to read. Highly recommended.
Fantastic insight into a long and unfortunate life April 4, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
From the first line you read you are instantly sucked into a world from the point of view of dolores. It is an absolutley fantastic tale of a girl and her struggle through life, the way she struggles with her weight and other variuos heart wrenching situations she finds herself in.
Wally Lamb is a fantastic writer, this book is a fabulous journey, something we see really in soap operas, but it makes us also realise that this can be a real situation. Fiction this book may be but it does indeed hit the heart strings in the right places.
So beautifully written from cover to cover, he manages to set you in her mind and makes you understand and feel for yourself what she goes through
this is a must read, a fantastic epic journey that has made this book such a success. If you are looking for a book to read, then read this!!!
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