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.Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded 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 orbits 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 she really goes under.
- ISBN10 0671021001
- ISBN13 9780671021009
- Publish Date 1 June 1998 (first published 1 August 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Paperback
- Pages 465
- Language English