Hardcover, 332 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 1992 by G. K. Hall & Co..
By her own account she's an old Yankee bitch. Dolores Claiborne: foul temper, foul mouth, foul life. Folks on Little Tall Island have been waiting thirty years to find out just what happened on the eerie dark day her husband, Joe, died--the day of the total eclipse. The police want to know what happened yesterday, when rich, bedridden Vera Donovan, the island's grand dame sans merci and Dolore's longtime employer, died suddenly in her care.
With no choice but to talk, Dolores Claiborne talks up a storm. "Everything I did, I did for love," she says, and this spellbinding novel is at once her confession and her defense. Given a voice as compelling as any in contemporary fiction, her story centers on a disintegrating marriage's molten core, where the mind's unblinking eye becomes huge with hate and a woman's heart turns murderous. It unfolds the strange intimacy between Dolores …
By her own account she's an old Yankee bitch. Dolores Claiborne: foul temper, foul mouth, foul life. Folks on Little Tall Island have been waiting thirty years to find out just what happened on the eerie dark day her husband, Joe, died--the day of the total eclipse. The police want to know what happened yesterday, when rich, bedridden Vera Donovan, the island's grand dame sans merci and Dolore's longtime employer, died suddenly in her care.
With no choice but to talk, Dolores Claiborne talks up a storm. "Everything I did, I did for love," she says, and this spellbinding novel is at once her confession and her defense. Given a voice as compelling as any in contemporary fiction, her story centers on a disintegrating marriage's molten core, where the mind's unblinking eye becomes huge with hate and a woman's heart turns murderous. It unfolds the strange intimacy between Dolores and Vera, and the link that binds them. It shows, finally, how fierce love can be, and how dreadful its consequences. And how the soul, harrowed by the hardest life, can achieve a kind of grace.
But that is for readers to judge. They will come away with different verdicts for Dolores, perhaps. But once taken inside the dark room of her life, lit by the brilliant intensity of Stephen King's storytelling, they will never forget her. (jacket flap)
I liked the story, the witty language, and the sad parts too. It takes imagination to tell a whole story in first person. And Stephen King is the man with the imagination!
This probably was a candidate for the short story collections, I am glad it stands alone. I like that it was a quick book to read, after reading 3 books with over 1000 pages in the last two months.
I can count on Stephen King to provide a new way to tell the great story.
чотири роки тому писав таке про випадково прочитаного кінга: «колись я взявся читати одну чудову повість стівена кінга, «протистояння» (або «останній рубіж»). точніше, чудовою є лише перша половина — майстерно змальований апокаліпсис цивілізації, я зачитався... але кінг не був би кінгом, якби не зіпсував усе своєю фірмовою містичною складовою, котра одразу поламала струнку, красиву логіку сюжету, атмосферу літературного «фолаута» — і перетворила історію на банальний трилер. після цього я не беруся читати кінга». але коли кінг відмовляється від своєї містичної складової, або принаймні користається з неї дуже ощадливо, — результат перевершує очікування! таким є роман «22/11/1963», такою є «долорес клейборн». вагався між 4 та 5, але книжка, безумовно, варта читання. навіть якщо ви вже бачили колись екранізацію.
