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 andleaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, becauseNorman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work ofart that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fableof the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspensethriller to keep readers right at the edge.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Publishers WeeklyRelentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated, this cat-and-mouse gameof 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 wifewho starts life anew by leaving her police officer husband, aconsummately cruel man depicted by King as a paragon of evil. Crowdedwith character and incident, the novel builds to a nearly apocalypticconclusion that combines the best of King's long novels?the breadth ofvision of The Stand, for example?with the focused plot and carefulpsychological portraiture of Dolores Claiborne. The story of Rose'sjoyous growth from tortured wife (her persecution gruesomely butrealistically portrayed) to independent woman alternates with theterrifying details of her husband's deliberate pursuit to createunflagging tension. The book is a phantasmagorical roller-coaster ride,peopled by a broad array of indelibly characterized men and women andfueled by an air of danger that is immediate and overwhelming. 1.75million first printing; BOMC main selection; simultaneous Penguin Audio;paperback sale to Signet.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.