By her own account she's an old Yankee bitch, Dolores Claiborne, foul mouth, foul life. People on Little Tall Island have been waiting 30 years to find out what happened on the eerie dark day her husband Joe died, the day of the total eclipse. And the police want to know what happened yesterday, when rich, bedridden Vera Donovan, died suddenly in her care.
With no choice but to talk, Dolores Claiborne talks up a storm. "Everything I did", she says "I did for love". This book shows just how firece love can be.......
Published by Viking, 1992
Dedication: For my mother, Ruth Pillsbury King.
