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| Title | : | Duma Key |
| Author | : | Stephen King |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | 1st Scribner hardcover ed (US/CAN) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 611 pages |
| Published | : | January 2008 by Scribner Book Company |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction |
Stephen King
Hardcover | Pages: 611 pages Rating: 3.95 | 96386 Users | 5264 Reviews
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From the Flap:NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH . . .
A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.
"Edgar does anything make you happy?"
"I used to sketch."
"Take it up again. You need hedges . . .
hedges against the night."
Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.
The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural--Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.
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| Original Title: | Duma Key |
| ISBN: | 1416552510 (ISBN13: 9781416552512) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Edgar Freemantle, Jerome Wireman, Elizabeth Eastlake, Dr. Xander Kamen, Jack Cantori, Perse (Duma Key), Candy Brown, Mary Ire, Pam Freemantle, Ilse Freemantle |
| Setting: | Florida(United States) Minnesota(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2008), Audie Award for Fiction (2009) |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 96386 Users | 5264 ReviewsArticle About Books Duma Key
2019 Update:A novel that grows in my estimation upon each reread, it has now earned a spot in my top 3. Hell, it could be my favorite King novel. SK writes about the creative process with clarity, and his setting of a ghost-ridden, Gothic-esque island in south Florida is one of his most invigorating and unsettling. Pair that with outright poetic prose and some of this authors scariest sequences, and you have a bonafide winner.Read for 600+ pages in Halloween Bingo.Original Review:What can I say"We can't imagine time running out, and God punishes us for what we can't imagine."Duma Key focuses on the story of Edgar Fremantle, a self-made millionaire who becomes injured at work after a crane crushes his pickup truck. Following the loss of his arm, amidst other injuries, Edgar becomes a little too much for his wife to handle and she asks for a divorce. He leaves behind his wife and two daughters and heads off to Duma Key, a stunning but eerily quiet stretch of the coast where he has
Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark. The first time I read Duma Key in 2014 I spent a lot of time kicking myself for not picking it up sooner. I had actually received it as a gift for my birthday the year it was published, and it just ended up sitting on my shelf for a long time. I didn't even buy Under the Dome and 11/22/63 when they were originally released, and that's saying something because for years I had never missed a Stephen King
For such a great King novel its actually quite baffling that this one isnt mentioned alongside his best works, it certainly has a forgotten modern classic feel to it!Its probably here where I should confess that it wasnt until the first couple of chapters that Id soon realised that Id read this before, it would have been around the time that the paperback it was first published 10 years ago.My theory is with no movie adaptation its easily slipped peoples minds, with a King resurgence surly its
Im mixed on this book. Im a big King fan, and love it when he does spooky; and for the most part, thats where this book takes it. It has some of his best character work, and his descriptions of this haunted little island off the Florida Keys really make it come to life. What annoyed me was the page after page after page of info dumps as the characters try to unravel the dark mysteries behind this island. And Im still baffled at how they reached some of their conclusions. But the real show
I wasnt far into reading Duma Key before it dawned on me that there was, quite possibly, something very important about this novel. Its no secret that King was almost killed in a car accident in 1999 and, for quite some time afterwards, there was doubt whether he would ever recover enough to be able to write again. The author himself even gave voice to the idea that he was considering the very distinct possibility of retirement, because of the constant pain hed suffered from since the event.
This one gave off a kind of Bag of Bones vibe swell characterizations; engaging enough storyline; clunky foreshadowing; decent, but not thrilling, horror aspects; some puzzling plot turns and yet still another disappointing dispatching of a villain and whats with the Slipknot hate, King?Im probably in the minority, but I like a lot of Kings more sober works and this one oddly makes a decent tandem read with Bag of Bones and, of all things, Maughams The Moon and the Sixpence. Cuz its about
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