(Redirected from Shattered (Dean Koontz novel)) Shattered is a 1973 novel by Dean Koontz; it was previously published for Random House under his pseudonym, K.R. Dwyer. The Berkeley edition was published in February 1985, the second printing was in June 1985, and the third printing was in November 1985.
Melodrama(noun) formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
Exaggerated as it all was, somehow the melodrama dropped away from it and left bare, simple, hideous fact for her to confront. Angelo is pure melodrama; Marie Tudor is the melodrama of history. There is nothing of melodrama, nothing inconsequent, nothing exaggerated. We're to meet a man, Senesin said, with an air of melodrama. The fact is, as it seems to me, that the proper place for melodrama is not the study but the stage.