Dolores Claiborne is a stunning, unforgettable novel from one of the world’s greatest authors. In this poignant story, told by Dolores, an old woman facing death retraces her life in and around her home. By turns haunting and moving, powerful but compassionate, Stephen King s iconic novel is a work of deep empathy, insight, and suspense.”
When he arrives at Vera Donovan’s wealthy estate, Roger Kettering is on a short work trip. Fifteen years earlier, he’d been hired by Joe St. George to take care of his wife, who was unhappy with her marriage or life in Rockford, Pennsylvania. At first Roger thinks that Vera has just returned from an illness, but then he is confronted with hard evidence against Joe: rotting food on the kitchen floor, and a dead dog-cat hybrid creature on the bed behind her closed bathroom door.
A celebrated classic from Stephen King and one of the most unforgettable novels in literary history, DOLORES CLAIRE is an electrifying novel about a woman lost in a world of lies. Dolores Claiborne has lived her whole life under the protection and tenderness of her employer: wealthy, powerful Mrs. Vera Donovan. But the storm clouds of devotion are gathering; increasingly overbearing, she seems bent on making Dolores’s life miserable. One day she arrives home to find that Vera has gone mad—and terrible secrets are buried in this lovely old house.
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Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera’s physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
Stephen King takes us back to the early 1970s with the award-winning novel that inspired a film, Dolores Claiborne. In this compelling story of resilience, a woman leaves home when she discovers her small town has become increasingly violent and dangerous. In mourning for her husband–beaten mercilessly in front of her after he murdered the woman who shares his name–Dolores must fight for survival on an unforgiving new world order where there are only winners and losers, but no redeeming values.
