![]() ![]() ![]() There she finds a community of women willing to help her, most of them victims themselves. She takes his bank card, withdraws some cash and buys a bus ticket to a town she’s never been where she doesn’t know a soul. One morning she decides she’s had enough and decides on a whim to leave him. The Rose of Rose Madder is a 30-something woman in a horrifically abusive marriage to a psychotically violent police detective. As it is, Rose Madder is 550 pages of greatness stuck in a 650-page book.Ĭontent Warning: To discuss the plot of this book in any meaningful way necessitates touching on the subject of domestic violence. I have no doubt that had anyone not named Stephen King submitted this book as a manuscript, any editor worth his or her salt would have cut about 100 pages (they all would choose the same 100 pages to cut, I bet) and made this a much better book. I’ve become quite a fan of Stephen King in recent years, but a frequent complaint from the less enamored rings true about Rose Madder: the man could stand an editor. ![]()
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