After the loss of her baby, Dolores becomes resentful of the control Dante exerts over her life. When Dolores becomes pregnant (something she dearly wanted), Dante pressures her into getting an abortion. However, Dante continues to dominate Dolores and has affairs with his female students. The two begin a relationship, and eventually marry. He is working as a high school English teacher, but is frustrated with the stagnation in his life after having given up his childhood dream of becoming a priest. She decides to move to Vermont upon release from the institution, having located Dante, the former object of her infatuation, there.ĭolores gets a job at a local grocery store and moves into an apartment across the hallway from Dante. She loses over 100 pounds, but becomes frustrated with the slow-moving therapy. Here she begins to work through her issues with the help of her therapist. She feels kinship with the animal and wades into the water to drown herself.Īfter her suicide attempt, Dolores is institutionalized for seven years in Newport, Rhode Island at Gracewood. After an ill-conceived one-night stand with Dottie, the university's lesbian custodian, she takes a long cab ride to Cape Cod, where she witnesses a beached whale dying. There Dolores is ridiculed for her weight and cultivates a secret obsession with her roommate's long-distance boyfriend, Dante, who sends love letters and nude photos in the mail.
After being raped by a neighbor who preys on her vulnerable state, Dolores turns to food and television for comfort.įollowing the accidental death of her mother, Dolores decides to attend the academically underwhelming Merton College in Pennsylvania.
Here she attends a Catholic high school, and finds herself lonely and unable to fit into the established social hierarchy. Dolores and her mother must subsequently move into her overbearing grandmother's house in Easterly, Rhode Island.
She's Come Undone has been translated into eighteen languages.ĭolores Price is heartbroken when her father leaves her mother, Bernice, and their suburban home for another woman. Lamb's novel was named a finalist for the 1992 Los Angeles Book Awards' Art Seidenbaum Prize for first fiction. The novel was selected as the fourth book for Oprah's Book Club in December 1996. She's Come Undone is the 1992 debut novel by Wally Lamb. 368 pp (hardback edition) & 465 pp (paperback edition)
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