Dolores Claiborne
Readers rate it 3.8 (303 on Hardcover)
336 pages · Released 2016 · Simon and Schuster
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Dolores Claiborne is a serious adult thriller centered on domestic abuse, its aftermath, and one woman's struggle for justice and survival. While the narrative celebrates resilience and maternal love, the book contains graphic depictions of spousal abuse, significant profanity, and mature psychological trauma that make it unsuitable for younger readers. This is a character-driven literary work best suited for mature teen and adult audiences.
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From the publisher
Master storyteller Stephen King presents the “powerful” (Time) #1 New York Times bestselling classic thriller 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 su... Master storyteller Stephen King presents the “powerful” (Time) #1 New York Times bestselling classic thriller 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, revealing 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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- Fiction
- Character driven
- Not Diverse Characters
- Strong Character Development
- Loveable Characters
- Unloveable Characters
- Weak Character Development
- thriller
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ISBN 9781501141188 · Simon and Schuster