This is the story of Rose Daniels, "the most richly portrayed female King's ever created" (Detroit Free Press). Escape from her macabre marriage is not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, and lucking out with a new man. Not with a husband like Norman... Stephen King's national bestseller Rose Madder is the haunting story of a housewife who flees her abusive husband. She runs, thinking she is free. She's wrong--dead wrong.
Amazon.com ReviewAfter 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and
leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because
Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of
art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable
of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense
thriller to keep readers right at the edge.
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Publishers WeeklyRelentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated, this cat-and-mouse game
of a novel is one of King's most engrossing and topical horror stories.
At the center of the action is heroine Rose McClendon, a battered wife
who starts life anew by leaving her police officer husband, a
consummately cruel man depicted by King as a paragon of evil. Crowded
with character and incident, the novel builds to a nearly apocalyptic
conclusion that combines the best of King's long novels?the breadth of
vision of The Stand, for example?with the focused plot and careful
psychological portraiture of Dolores Claiborne. The story of Rose's
joyous growth from tortured wife (her persecution gruesomely but
realistically portrayed) to independent woman alternates with the
terrifying details of her husband's deliberate pursuit to create
unflagging tension. The book is a phantasmagorical roller-coaster ride,
peopled by a broad array of indelibly characterized men and women and
fueled by an air of danger that is immediate and overwhelming. 1.75
million first printing; BOMC main selection; simultaneous Penguin Audio;
paperback sale to Signet.
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