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100			_aKing, Stephen
245		0	_aRose Madder.
260			_aNew York : _bViking/Penguin Books, _cc1995.
300			_a478 p. ; _c18 cm.
260			_bSignet.
520			_aRelentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated, this cat-and-mouse game of 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 wife who starts life anew by leaving her police officer husband, a consummately cruel man depicted by King as a paragon of evil. Crowded with character and incident, the novel builds to a nearly apocalyptic conclusion that combines the best of King's long novels--the breadth of vision of The Stand, for example--with the focused plot and careful psychological portraiture of Dolores Claiborne. The story of Rose's joyous growth from tortured wife (her persecution gruesomely but realistically portrayed) to independent woman alternates with the terrifying details of her husband's deliberate pursuit to create unflagging tension. The book is a phantasmagorical roller-coaster ride, peopled by a broad array of indelibly characterized men and women and fueled by an air of danger that is immediate and overwhelming.
650			_aHorror tales.
650			_aTerror _xFiction.
650			_aRunaway wives _xFiction.
650			_aAbused wives _xFiction.
655			_aHorror fiction.
942			_c UKN
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