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    I read "Rose Madder" when it was first published, and noticed the discrepancy in Rosie's address. At the time, I made a note of it and put it inside the book. Recently, while cleaning a book shelf, I picked up "Rose Madder" and the note fell out of it. I had forgotten about it, but now that I'm here, I might as well check if anyone else noticed the discrepancy of the address of the one room on the second floor where Rosie went to live on her own after her stay at Daughters and Sisters. It probably has been noted before, but I couldn't find it on any of the postings. On page 97, when Anna Stevenson writes down the address for Rosie, and tells Rosie, "that's where you live", she jotted down 897 Trenton St. Again, on page 117, "Rosie pushed her key into the lock of her second-floor room on Trenton St...", but on page 130, when Bill went to visit her, the address is Tremont Street: "the two of them stood looking at each other across the doorjam of Rosie's second-floor room on Tremont Street,..."
    Perhaps it was just a simple and honest case of similar names, Trenton and Tremont, and King just wrote one versus the other on page 130, or maybe it's his way of making sure we're paying attention. Whichever, or whatever, the reason, I just wanted to share.

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    Default Re: Rosie's address discrepancy

    My guess is that it's a continuity error that didn't get picked up.


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    Good eye, I never noticed that! You're probably right about SK just trying to make sure we are paying attention.

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    Default Re: Rosie's address discrepancy

    I just checked this in the 1995 Signet paperback version and it is Trenton St throughout those pages and it doesnt change

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    Just ruined the whole book for me.

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    Default Re: Rosie's address discrepancy

    What?

    No convenient Dark Tower excuse for this one?

    Come on now . . . you guys are slipping . . . say it with me . . .

    "There are other worlds than this."



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    Default Re: Rosie's address discrepancy

    I can't remember where I live three quarters at a time-but maybe that had to do with me snacking on lead paint chips as a child...

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    Default Re: Rosie's address discrepancy

    My version says that too. Trenton then Tremont, the 1995 Hardback BCA edition... strange. Probably just a proofing error

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    Default Re: Rosie's address discrepancy

    There are too many little details when writing a book and it's impossible to keep up with them all.

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