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. Shes 13, 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 Shes 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, 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. ...
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i Was Impressed And Incredulous That This Exquisitely Nuanced Ode To The Living Hell That Is One Woman's Puberty Was Written By A Man [gasp]. His Stunningly Drawn Portrait Of The Scarred, Misterable And Oft-times Gastronomically Challenged Dolores Seduces The Reader Into Acknowledging Some Of The Very Reasons We Don't Always Enjoy Being A Girl.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Family Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Pocket Books
Author : Lamb, Wally
Language : English
Edition : First Thus 23rd Printing
Published :1998-06-01
Number Of Pages : 480
Binding : mass_market
ISBN-10 : 0671021001
ISBN-13 : 9780671021009
Item weight : 0.45 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 4.1 in x 6.6 in
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