Rose’s strength comes from a magic painting that never seems to make any sense or work with the wider narrative. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Once he finally catches up to Rose, he attempts to strangle her and her new boyfriend, Bill Steiner. Rose Madder feels as though King is saying that again, but with far less power. Rose Madder By: Stephen King Narrated by: Blair Brown Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins 4.5 (4,007 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases.He murders a policeman guarding Rose to hide inside the patrol car, despite being a policeman himself.He kills Rose's two friends at her new apartment.Killing a man simply because the man was Jewish.

A brilliant, dark-hued fable of gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense, Rose Madder is Stephen King at his electrifying best. He interrogates a man who saw Rose by crushing his scrotum, before he fatally devoured him. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dogs instinct for tracking people.After Rose decides to leave him to avoid anymore of his abuse, he becomes determined to hunt her down and ' talk to her up close'.He brutally assaulted and raped an African-American prostitute.While Rose was four months pregnant, he punched her because he hated the book she was reading, causing her to miscarry.Over 14 years, he makes Rose's life miserable by domestically abusing her whenever he felt like it such as biting her, punching her in the kidneys and sodomizing her with a tennis racket.He regularly abuses his power as a police officer.Norman is a racist and a misogynist, assaulting people simply for being other races or the opposite sex.While Norman is claimed to have a tragic past of having been sexually abused by his father that made him what he is, but the story leans on the idea it was all on Norman's mind to provide himself an excuse and that the abuse may have never actually even happened in the first place so has no real justification or reason for his crimes other than simple sadism.Visit here for more details: Norman Daniels's Synopsis on the Villains Wiki.

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