Dolores Claiborne (1993) is a novel by Stephen King, which was adapted into a 1995 film starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for horror novels. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kathy Bates (right) with Frances Conroy in Six Feet Under. ... Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress. ...

When it first came out many fans were surprised and/or dissatisfied because the book did not live up to their expectations of a horror novel. It is written in spoken English—even in dialect—and is told by the title character. Also atypically for a King novel, the book has no chapters, nor even blank lines or other section breaks, thus the story is a single continuous narrative monologue. Image File history File links DOLORES-CLAIBORNE.jpg This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ...

As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne is in a police interrogation and wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill her wealthy employer, an elderly woman named Vera Donovan whom she has looked after for years. She does, however, confess to the murder of her husband, Joe St. George, almost 30 years before. The novel develops into the story of her life, her troubled marriage, and her relationship with her employer.

Unlike the majority of King's works, this novel contains very few supernatural elements. Those that do exist attempt to create a connection to King's previous novel, Gerald's Game. Some readers think that the book would have been better without this connection: It is not very important, and it is also never explained so people that have not read Gerald's Game are left in the dark. Later editions of the novel have a foreword that explains the connection. The supernatural (Latin: super- exceeding + nature) refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding. ... Geralds Game (1992) is a novel by Stephen King. ...

The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1995 film of the same name with Kathy Bates in the title role. The film differs from the novel in two important aspects. First, the events leading up to Joe's murder take place over the course of several months in 1975. In the novel, however, Dolores first rebels against Joe in 1961 or so, although she does not kill him until July 1963. Kathy Bates (right) with Frances Conroy in Six Feet Under. ...

More importantly, the film focuses less on the investigation into Vera Donovan's death and more on Dolores' relationship with her daughter, Selena. (Given the film's extensive use of flashbacks, Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as the adult Selena while Ellen Muth portrays Selena as she was at age fourteen.) As many difficult truths are revealed about their family's domestic strife, (this is cleverly portrayed with the present "reality" filmed in cool blue tones, blending seamlessly into flashbacks filmed in vivid colour) the uneasy relationship between mother and daughter becomes increasingly combative throughout the film. Selena has long suspected her mother of murdering her father, and she demands to know the truth. Dolores, eventually persuades Selena that she had no choice but to do the things she did, and that they were both victims of Joe St. George: the ever-more abusive husband that he was towards his wife Dolores, and the child molester of their daughter Selena. Look up flashback in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress. ... Categories: People stubs | 1981 births | Cinema actors | Television actors | American actors ...

The film provided the inspiration for the song entitled "There is no Arizona" which was performed by Jamie O'Neal. Selena, confessing that she doesn't really have an important assignment in Arizona, tells her mother "There is no Arizona". Jamie ONeal is an contemporary country singer and songwriter. ...

External links

• Dolores Claiborne at The Internet Movie Database
• David Strathairn Online: Dolores Claiborne - information and media on the film
• Stephen King Book Reviews and biography

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ISBN numbers

• ISBN 0606058117 (prebound, 1993)
• ISBN 0451177096 (mass market paperback, 1993, reprint)
• ISBN 0816156417 (paperback, 1993, Large Type Edition)
• ISBN 2277047422 (paperback)

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