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Dolores Claiborne

By Stephen King
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In Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King weaves a gripping tale of mystery and resilience. After the death of Vera Donovan, a wealthy and unpleasant islander, suspicion falls on her housekeeper Dolores Claiborne. Haunted by a troubled past, including the mysterious death of her abusive husband decades earlier, Dolores recounts a powerful and intimate story of survival, secrecy, and a mother's fierce love.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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First published: New York: Viking, 1992.

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Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past... one that tests her own will to survive.

When Vera Donovan, one of the wealthiest and most ill-natured residents of Maine's Little Tall Island, dies suddenly in her home, suspicion is immediately cast on her housekeeper and caretaker, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores herself is no stranger to such mistrust, thanks to the local chatter and mysterious circumstances surrounding her abusive husband's death twenty-nine years earlier.

But if this is truly to be the day of Dolores Claiborne's reckoning, she has a few things of her own that she'd like to get off her chest... and begins to confess a spirited, intimate, and harrowing tale of the darkest secrets hidden within her hardscrabble existence. She reveals above all one woman's unwavering determination to weather the storm of her life with grace and protect the one she loves, no matter what the cost.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501147425

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 October 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 336

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Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Thriller Stephen King

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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