In his first novel, Wally Lamb creates a heroine--Dolores Price--who survives family insanity, rape, abuse, obesity, and the death of loved ones, emerging at the end as a strong, tough woman whose life is moving toward hope and salvation.
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I picked this book up accidentally and on one rainy weekend I read the whole thing hardly breaking because I always wanted to know what happens to her next! This book made me feel like I was reading her private diary! Wonderful, very funny and sad for her (just a little) at times. I loved it so much and had never heard of the author Wally Lamb before, but now I have just bought another book by him and can't wait to get it started! Simply, a must read for all!
this book made me talk to myself. once you're in, that's it. you find yourself really involved and rooting for D. such a great read for any woman, i've lent out my copy to so many girlfriends it looks like i need a new binding or replacement. wally lamb is a favorite for sure.
I finished this book in a few days. (I have toddlers so it usually takes me a week to read a decent book.) It was very engaging. I also liked the fact that I couldn't see Hollywood turning it into a movie. It was a real readers book.
I loved this book, I didn't want it to end! From the first page to the last I was hooked. I would deffinately recommend this book to friends. This was the first book i've read by Lamb and I intend to check out more. This book was beautiful.
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In this engaging first novel, narrator Dolores Price recounts her life story from age four to age 40. The troubled product of a stormy marriage, she is already sipping Maalox in grade school. Then her father walks out on her mother, who suffers a nervous collapse, and Dolores moves to her repressive grandmother's house in Rhode Island. By the time she reaches eighth grade, she has only one friend: a boarder who eventually rapes her. Anesthetizing herself with junk food and soap operas, Dolores becomes an obese, isolated young woman who attempts suicide during her first semester in college and spends seven years in a mental institution. Oddly enough, this relentless parade of disasters makes for interesting reading. The author keenly evokes his protagonist's profound alienation and self-loathing, endowing Dolores with a bleak sense of humor that keeps readers rooting for her. Ironically, the book itself "comes undone'' as its heroine develops self-esteem, at which point an absorbing portrait of a woman on a collision course with her problems turns into a disappointing series of cliches about love, forgiveness and Dolores's ticking biological clock. Nonetheless, this is a promising debut. ( July ) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved