This book is not new, but was well worth the trip back to the stacks to pick up and read. Wally Lamb is a noteworthy author, having won distinctive writing awards. His writing makes the characters so real, it is as if they inhabit your own world. I greatly enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading his newest adventure: The Hour I First Believed.
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….” Thus, we meet Dolores Prices, our heroine. She is thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with potato chips and Pepsi. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. However, she is determined to rise to the occasion before really going ‘belly up.’
And so, the reader joins Dolores Price’s odyssey to truly come of age. It is a wild ride on a journey of love, pain and renewal with this heartbreaking, yet comical, heroine. The string of trials and tribulations add up to a touchingly funny book.
What a delightfully well-written book. I loved Dolores! My heart would be breaking for her one moment, and the next I would be laughing out loud as she climbed out of the mountain of her body. This book is so well worth the read. We all know a Dolores Price, for she is part of each of us.