He intends to track Rose down and give her a talking to "up close," as he likes to put it. He doesn't like it at all that Rose has left him, and he particularly resents her audacity in taking his bank card.
Yet this is no bittersweet comedy like Anne Tyler's recent "Ladder of Years." As Rose settles into her new routine, the narrative viewpoint switches to Norman Daniels, who is also getting madder and madder. There, she makes her way to a shelter for battered women, getsĬounseling, meets a nice man, discovers her talent at reading aloud for recorded books and begins a happier new life. While he's at work, she finds his bank card, withdraws $350 from an ATM and takes a bus to a city several hours to the west. So she finally gets up the courage to walk out on Norman. O f her marriage, and in particular of the one in the midsection that ended her pregnancy. Remembering this punch makes her think of all the beatings she has suffered over the 14 years The spot of blood reminds Rose Daniels of the punch in the nose her husband, Norman, gave her the previous evening when she spilled some iced tea on his hand. But " Rose Madder" also sums up what the novel's heroine feels when she notices "a single drop of blood, no larger than a dime" on the sheet near her pillow while she is making the bed. " Rose Madder," the title of Stephen King's 29th novel, refers of course to the reddish pigment used in painting, on which depend important details of the novel's scary plot. June 26, 1995, Monday, Late Edition - Final
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