Hodder and Stoughton, UK, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 241 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hodder and Stoughton, UK, 1992. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Spine has moderate lean. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping and superficial wear. . Clear, self-adhesive laminate over boards. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. Foxing on end pages. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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 grande dame sans merci and Dolores'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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 0340546727. ISBN/EAN: 9780340546727. Inventory No: 19120030.. 9780340546727

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Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by Stephen King. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus the text is a single continuous narrative which reads like a transcription of a spoken monologue. It was the best selling novel of 1992 in the United States.

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Bookseller: Manyhills Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19120030
Title: Dolores Claiborne
Author: Stephen King
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0340546727
ISBN 13: 9780340546727
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Place of Publication: UK
Date Published: 1992
Keywords: BZDB5 Fiction; Dolores Claiborne
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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