Dolores Claiborne
Record details
- ISBN: 0670844527 :
- ISBN: 9780670844524
- ISBN: 0451177096 (pbk.
-
Physical Description:
305 p. (large type) : map ; 25 cm.
print - Publisher: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1993.
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Maine -- Fiction Care taker -- Fiction Homicide -- Fiction Police Investigation -- Fiction Murder -- Fiction Murder Investigation -- Fiction Women -- Fiction |
Genre: | Horror fiction. Horror fiction. Horror tales. Horror tales, American. Detective and mystery stories, American. |
Topic Heading: | DM |
Available copies
- 7 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Prince Rupert Library | KING (Text) | 33294001071893 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"Dolores Claiborne is a middle-aged woman who stands accused of killing the elderly woman she had been attending for over 22 years. She is also confronted by her bitter daughter Selena, a self-absorbed magazine writer, about the death of her father. Twenty years before, the abusive man died mysteriously during an eclipse, and although no one could prove it, Dolores was suspected of killing him. The story then moves between past and future as it examines Dolores' role in the deaths."
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.
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.