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
Product details
Publisher : Atria Books; Reprint edition (Dec 1 1996)
Language : English
Paperback : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 0671003755
ISBN-13 : 978-0671003753
Item weight : 408 g
Dimensions : 13.49 x 3.3 x 20.96 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #86,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#1,331 in Contemporary Fantasy (Books)
#1,565 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books)
#2,063 in Domestic Life in Women's Fiction
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