Son of Rosemary
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Return to the dark and haunting world of Rosemary’s Baby in Ira Levin’s beguiling sequel, Son of Rosemary. This edition features a revelatory new afterword from the author’s son, Nicholas Levin.
Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby, one of the bestselling books of all time, is the iconic classic that ushered in the era of modern horror. This shocking and darkly comic sequel is set well after the harrowing events of the first book, and is just as compelling and suspenseful. It is now 1999, and Rosemary Woodhouse awakens from a decades-long coma to find herself in a drastically changed world. She soon discovers her son is already thirty-three years old, and a charismatic spiritual leader worshipped the world over, preaching a message of tolerance and peace. But is “Andy” the savior the troubled world so desperately needs, or is he his father’s son—the Antichrist?
Master of suspense Ira Levin’s sardonic and thought-provoking exploration of good and evil, Son of Rosemary, finds Rosemary and her child reunited in a battle of wills that could determine not just the course of the new millennium—but the very fate of humankind.
Customer Reviews
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(spoilers): I absolutely love his son’s interpretation of the ending. The idea that Rosemary has to keep repeating the same events over and over again until she gets it right is eerie and fun to me. I don’t know how long anyone could reasonably keep making the same ultimately catastrophic decisions in her position but the idea that she has to repeat the cycle even once is pretty creepy. I know most people don’t enjoy it was all a dream endings and I understand why but I always love a time loop concept and her being stuck in a divinely fabricated scenario where she keeps being given the chance to make the right choice not only for herself but for the greater good - but at the expense of her own child that she wanted so desperately - is fittingly insane and unnecessarily cruel so I think it’s perfect for an examination and satirical critique of some long-held but deeply irrational religious beliefs.