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[Dolores Claiborne] [By: King, Stephen] [July, 2011]
by Stephen King
Narrated by Frances Sternhagen
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
This is Stephen King's most unusual book — one unbroken monologue — and Frances Sternhagen makes you forget it was ever meant to be read.
- Great if you want: raw, intimate character study over supernatural horror
- Listening experience: slow, confessional, and quietly devastating — one long exhale
- Narration: Sternhagen's weathered New England voice is Dolores — not a performance
- Skip if: you need plot momentum or King's usual genre thrills
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About This Audiobook
Dolores Claiborne is giving a confession, and she has been giving it for a long time on Little Tall Island, Maine. Everyone has been waiting thirty years to find out what really happened on the day of the solar eclipse when her husband died. Now her employer has also died while in her care, and with no choice but to speak, Dolores tells everything: the things she did, the things that were done to her, the terrible love that made certain actions seem not only possible but necessary. Stephen King's 1992 novel is a monologue from one of his most vivid and morally complicated characters.
Frances Sternhagen's narration is one of the most celebrated performances in the King audiobook catalog, giving Dolores the full texture of a working-class Maine woman whose inner life is far more complex than anyone around her has ever suspected. Sternhagen's command of the novel's long, confessional rhythm makes the nearly ten-hour listen feel intimate and relentless. This is the rare audiobook where the narrator and the novel are perfectly matched.