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Description
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. ... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Dolores Price: Dolores Price remembers that she was four when her family got their first television and that she was frightened by it. Over the course of her lifetime, she would own several televisions and some of them would simply rule her life, as that first one did.
Memorable Quotes
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“He was right. And he was an insensitive shit.”
First Sentence
IN ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES, MY MOTHER AND I ARE ON the front porch of our rented Carter Avenue house watching two delivery men carry our brand-new television set up the steps.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Wally Lamb (Author)
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