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About The Book
Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he 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 finally start to happen. Meeting Bill is one; and getting an apartment is another. Still, it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. He’s very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind.
Fixed on revenge, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. For Rosie to survive, she must enter her own myth and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder.
“Riveting, engrossing...packed with suspense” (People), Stephen King infuses this novel with an edge-of-your-seat, chilling atmosphere. Rose Madder is “an eerie, remarkably mature and moving novel” (The Washington Post).
Product Details
- Publisher: Scribner (January 1, 2016)
- Length: 400 pages
- ISBN13: 9781501141287
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Raves and Reviews
"Riveting, engrossing...packed with suspense."
– People
"An eerie, remarkably mature and moving novel."
– Washington Post
"Breathlessly paced suspense and terror...horrific thrills....It's King's best!"
– Miami Herald
"Vivid, startling...a compelling page-turner."
– Houston Chronicle
"Rousing...vivid and sensitive."
– New York Times
"Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated, this cat-and-mouse game of a novel is one of King's most engrossing and topical horror stories."
– Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Stephen King is a marvelous writer. His style crackles. His storyline skitters along, pausing for the kaboom, then moves to the next terror. His imagination is beyond the edge."
– Baltimore Sun
"A taut thriller-novel...about as good as they come."
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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