Rose Madder

Mass Market Paperback, 595 pages

English language

Published April 2, 1995 by New English Library.

ISBN:
978-0-340-64014-2
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OCLC Number:
35738059

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Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight — with his credit card.

Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seem to want her as much as she wants it.

But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he's getting... --back cover

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I have read a lot of Stephen King in my life...and I think that this novel is one of his best...because while it is less specific than others in terms of locations of where things take place, that's part of it's suspense. Not sure about other readers, but I'm pretty sure the world in the painting is one of the worlds on the wheel; sort of reminds me of one of the twisting areas of Roland's world. I feel like Rose Madder and Roland might have interacted off page at some point.

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Review of 'Rose Madder' on 'Storygraph'

This is not very elegant, but as King's oft-quoted “equivalent of a Big Mac” it works just fine. Don't expect anything out of the extraordinary, and you won't be disappointed. And that's all there is to say really – except ...

In his book How to Write a Damn Good Novel II, James N. Frey explains that there is one terrible specimen of a story that nobody wants to see: the story of the weak housewife. And then he goes on to outline exactly this novel (minus the psychopath, but that's King for you).

Review of 'Rose Madder' on 'Goodreads'

J’ai lu pas mal de King, mais le dernier date d’avant ce blog, il était temps de m’y remettre et de faire baisser un peu ma PAL par la même occasion. Si Rose Madder est loin d’être le plus transcendant de ses romans, j’ai toutefois dévoré ce pavé rapidement. King se met dans la peau d’une femme battue, qui au bout de quatorze ans décide subitement de fuir l’emprise de son mari. Sa fuite inexpliquée et soudaine la conduira dans un foyer pour femmes battues, où elle apprendra à vivre en société, à côtoyer du monde, à pendre confiance en elle, bref, à avoir une vie normale. La menace de son mari pèse pourtant encore sur elle et ce dernier se mettra rapidement à suivre ses traces, aidé par son savoir-faire de flic et un sixième sens très aiguisé. Sur le point d’accéder à une nouvelle indépendance, Rosie fait l’acquisition …

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Subjects

  • Revenge
  • Runaway wives
  • Fiction

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