Shes Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Shes Come Undone, Wally Lamb
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She's Come Undone

Author: Wally Lamb

Narrator: Kathy Najimy

Abridged: 5 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/1997

Synopsis

In this New York Times bestselling extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

"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 thirteen, 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, and 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.

About Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels: I’ll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone. Lamb also edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he was a volunteer facilitator for twenty years. Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine, and they have three sons.

About Kathy Najimy

Kathy Najimy is an award-winning actor, director, writer, producer, and activist known for her memorable performances in over twenty-five films and over one-hundred television projects, including Sister Act, Hocus Pocus, VEEP, King of the Hill, Younger, Dumplin’, and many more. Her performances have earned her prestigious accolades, including an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress, the Hollywood Women’s Press Club Female Discovery of the Year, Ms. Magazine’s Woman of the Year and the NYC Lily Awards Actor/Activist of the year. Najimy is producing a series for television based on The Women’s Movement, and creating the off-Broadway hit Gloria: A Life, about the life of her friend, Gloria Steinem. For her over forty years of AIDS activism, Najimy has been honored with the GMHC Howard Ashman Lifetime achievement award, the LA Shanti’s Founder award, as well as the LA Gay and Lesbian Center’s Distinguished Achievement award. As a proud Lebanese American, she has received awards from the ACC and the ADC and has been honored with their Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award. Kathy is currently a member and speaker for Times Up NYC.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Laura on 2007-06-13 16:05:04

She's come undone is a fantastic read...every woman can relate to the struggles and find themselves in some stage of their lives in this wonderful novel.

AudiobooksNow review by Sarah on 2007-09-09 14:10:25

This was a great book, at times I couldn't put it down.

AudiobooksNow review by Paula on 2009-05-01 19:11:54

I was expecting to be blown away by this book and was a little disappointed. While the heroine faced more than her fair share of trauma it was difficult to empathize with her. It seems to me that not only did she bring about much of her own grief but she went out of her way to cause grief for others. After finishing I was left with the feeling of Is that it?Meh.

Goodreads review by Sammy on June 12, 2007

I have to wonder if any of Lamb's children were teenage girls while he was writing this novel. If not, then I'm sure his wife had her brain picked apart to help him write this novel. Why? Lamb so captures the teenage girl spirit in this book (or at least the spirit of a crushed and ruined teenage gi......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 13, 2022

You can skip this one. If you get the talking book version on cds, you can skip it across the surface of the nearest large body of water you can find, until it sinks. As it sinks you might hear a voice sounding like Oprah saying " this is the beautiful, unconventional and ultimately life glug affirm......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on October 06, 2007

This is one of my all time favorite books. I just recently reread the book and fell in love all over again. It had been some time since I read the book and felt I should refresh my memory since I recommend it to so many. She’s Come Undone is the story of a troubled teenage girl growing into a woman,......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on April 26, 2008

I'm amazed by how many people hated this book. I had mixed feelings about it. Yes, the characters and situations were godawful, and at times it was more than a little contrived. A lot of people on this forum said it was hard to believe that so many horrible things could happen to one person - that I......more

Goodreads review by JO on February 22, 2007

Wally Lamb is one of my favorite writers. This particular book is written in a woman’s prospective. Her name is Dolores. It starts out when she was a child; explain in details the experiences she has with her parents. Then it goes on to reveal situations about her father, her mother’s mental health......more

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