Digital Audio
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2016 by Simon & Schuster Audio.
“An unforgettable, unflinching glimpse into a mind driven to murder” (San Francisco Chronicle)—the #1 national bestseller from Stephen King about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past…one that tests her own will to survive.
Dolores Claiborne is suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, and when the police question her, she tells the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera’s physical and mental decline and how she became emotionally demanding in recent years.
Given a voice as compelling as any in contemporary fiction, the strange intimacy between Dolores and Vera—and the link that binds them—unfolds in Dolores’s account. 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. …
“An unforgettable, unflinching glimpse into a mind driven to murder” (San Francisco Chronicle)—the #1 national bestseller from Stephen King about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past…one that tests her own will to survive.
Dolores Claiborne is suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, and when the police question her, she tells the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera’s physical and mental decline and how she became emotionally demanding in recent years.
Given a voice as compelling as any in contemporary fiction, the strange intimacy between Dolores and Vera—and the link that binds them—unfolds in Dolores’s account. 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. Source: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dolores-Claiborne/Stephen-King/9781508216995
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.
