She's Come Undone includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price. 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. 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.
But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. 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. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. We never know how hard it just might hit us within a year, a week, a month, even a decade."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." This book brings out so much of the craziness of life, or the chaos. The pettiness, the karma, the resentment. We first meet Dolores as a happy, care-free child, but when her father leaves Dolores and her mother unexpectedly her life becomes a downward spiral of anger and depression. Woman problems written by someone who is not a woman but nailed even so. Shes Come Undone follows Dolores and her struggles with health and behavior problems from childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood. This book isn't perfect, its characters are not perfect, nothing here is perfect, it's an ugly gaping mess coming undone.
It's messy, it's horrible, it's a book I thoroughly enjoyed because each kick was her rolling downhill, she'd hit the bottom and we'd have her kicked again, hemorrhoid cream from rough anal sex, crying all night and hating her reflection, people dying, her dreams gone, she sank and sank and sank until she floated. Her life is rife with bad sex, bad partners, obesity, abuse, loss, and her wondering how life can be any more shit, then slowly climbing back within the last chapter. She's a flawed woman, terribly flawed, her situations and experiences are awful and depressing, this book in general is awful and depressing.ĭolores is our main character, the book has us follow her from age four to forty. Dolores is very hate-able, very pitiable. This book is about a woman being kicked down a hill again and again and hitting the bottom.
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