A kindly man named Peter Slowik directs her to Daughters and Sisters, a women’s shelter that helps her get back on her feet. The horrible thing he’d done with the tennis racket.”Īfter escaping and making her way to a big midwestern town, Rose discovers that she can depend on the kindness of strangers. However, nine years later she spots a drop of blood on the sheets from a beating the night before, and she finally makes the decision to leave. Due to Norman being a cop, she chooses not to run away. In 1985, Rosie Daniels is beaten by her husband Norman and miscarries. On its most basic level, ROSE MADDER is about a woman escaping from an abusive spouse. Both are wives of men with violence in their blood, and each woman finds herself walking in a world that is not her own. While the women who lead the two books are not cosmically connected like Gerald’s Game and Dolores Claiborne, their experiences across space and time form the kind of comfortable parallel that keeps turning up in King’s bibliography. Yet these books are twins in more ways than one.Īctually, ‘echoes’ of each other is a more accurate statement. The current rate of Stephen King adaptations to the screen - and an almost obsessive need to the read the book before the movie or show - has led me to reading some of his books out of order. It was happenstance that led me to reading ROSE MADDER so close to 2006’s Lisey’s Story.
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