Rose Madder

Hardcover, 420 pages

English language

Published July 1, 1995 by Viking Adult.

ISBN:
978-0-670-85869-9
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OCLC Number:
1028242358
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335370

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Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes from fourteen years of a nightmare marriage and suddenly takes flight. She uses her husband's ATM card to buy a bus ticket, determined to lose herself in a place where Norman won't find her. She'll worry about all the rest later.

Alone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things start to happen. Meeting Bill Steiner is one; and finding a junk-shop painting is another. It may be bad art but it's perfect for her new apartment--and somehow, it seems to want her as much as she wants it.

Still, it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Her husband is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. He's very good at finding people. The fact that he's losing his mind might even …

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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).

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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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  • Runaway wives--Fiction.
  • Revenge--Fiction.