Dolores Claiborne.
KING, Stephen.
Dolores Claiborne.
“A person can always find something to be grateful for no matter how dark it gets”: First Edition of Dolores Claiborne; Signed by Stephen King
New York: Viking, 1993.
$1,500.00
In Stock
Item Number: 152049
First edition of one of King’s most psychologically-driven novels. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne (1993) trades the supernatural for psychological tension, using a single extended confession to explore memory, violence, and survival. Framed as Dolores’s statement to the police after her employer’s death, the novel turns a crime narrative into a study of class and gender constraints on a Maine island. Dolores’s blunt, darkly ironic voice shapes the book’s moral focus, directing attention away from sensational plot twists and toward the social conditions that make desperate choices intelligible.








