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Book Review of Rose Madder

Rose Madder
Rose Madder
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Horror
Book Type: Hardcover
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Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes from 14 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 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; finding a junk-shop painting is another. Stiil, it's hard for Rosie not to look 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 be an advantage. Rose-Maddened and on the rampage, Norman 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-a world that lies beyond the surface of a work of art-and become a woman she never knew she could be:Rose Madder.