Rose knew she had been married to a savage brute. And even worse, Norman was - well, Norman. Her husband, Norman, was a cop, with a cop's training, a cop's technology, a cop's bloodhound instincts.

lt ma be bad art but it's perfect for her new apartment - and somehow, it seems to want her as much as she wants it.īut escape was not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, lucking out with a new man.

Meeting Billl Steiner is one and finding a junk-shop painting is another. She'll worry about all the rest later.Īlone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things start to happen. She uses her husband's ATM card to buy a bus ticket, determined to lose herself in a place where Norman won't find her. Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes from fourteen years of a nightmare marriage and suddenly takes flight. Overall the book is enjoyable to read and I went through it pretty quickly, however imho it is not one of his best. Maybe he was trying something different out, not sure. Some interesting parts about the book is about how the city to which Rosie escapes to is not mentioned which is kind of odd as SK normally likes to spend a great deal of time describing towns and roads and places of interest especially his favorites like Derry and Castle Rock. SK used some strong motifs that recur throughout the book such as 'Let me talk to you real close', referring to Norm's term for dishing out his brand of abuse. Not his best work I would say and there are some common themes that emerge similar to other books of his such as the deranged policeman Norm which was also the case in Desperation, abused wife like the Shining, pictures coming to life remember in another book not sure which a picture of a wolf that keeps getting closer over time and portals to another dimension Insomnia and the Dark Tower. Book 66 and read after listening to Gerald's game which was also referenced in SK's memoir On Writing.

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