DOLORES CLAIBORNE

'''Dolores Claiborne''' (1992) is a novel by Stephen King, which was adapted into a 1995 film starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh, directed by Taylor Hackford.

Contents

Plot

Editions

Memorable Quotes from the book

See also

External links

Plot

The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus the text is a single continuous narrative which reads like a transcription of a spoken monologue.
As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne is in a police interrogation and wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill her wealthy employer, an elderly woman named Vera Donovan whom she has looked after for years. She does, however, confess to the indirect murder of her husband, Joe St. George, almost 30 years before. Her "confession" develops into the story of her life, her troubled marriage, and her relationship with her employer.
Unlike the majority of King's works, the novel does not include supernatural elements. Those that do exist attempt to create a connection to King's previous novel, ''Gerald's Game'' (the two novels were initially conceived to be part of a single volume, titled ''In the Path of the Eclipse''). Later editions of the novel have a foreword that explains the connection between the two.

Editions

★ ISBN 0-670-84452-7 (hardcover, first edition, 1993)

★ ISBN 0-606-05811-7 (prebound, 1993)

★ ISBN 0-451-17709-6 (mass market paperback, 1993, reprint)

★ ISBN 0-8161-5641-7 (paperback, 1993, Large Type Edition)

★ ISBN 2-277-04742-2 (paperback)

Memorable Quotes from the book

Vera Donovan: "Sometimes, Dolores, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend."
Vera Donovan: "Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hang onto."
Vera Donovan: "Well, don't look to me, Dolores. All my money is tied up in cash."

See also

★ Dolores Claiborne (film)

★ Solar eclipses in fiction

External links

★ Stephen King Book Review Dolores Claiborne