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King, Stephen – Duma Key (2008 HB)
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Duma Key
Scribner, January 2008, 611 pages
Cover art by Mark Stutzman
Jacket design by John Fulbrook III
From the dust jacket:
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 marraige 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, sugguests 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 calls out to him. 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 than 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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Acquired: 2008-02-23
Started: 2009-07-02
Finished: 2009-08-23
Edgar Freemantle loses his right arm in a construction accident. During his recovery, his marriage breaks up, and he moves to a beach house in Duma Key, Florida to try and make a new start on his life. He meets the other somewhat unusual inhabitants of the Key and takes up painting, but soon finds that the painting may be controlled by forces beyond his control.
There is nothing terribly new here. A lot of things such as the ancient evil force and the artist protagonist whose art has some magical powers are ideas King has used before numerous times, but he does it very well here, and I found it to be one of King’s most enjoyable recent books.
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Stephen King Trivia!
I love Stephen King and have read most of his books. I just bought his latest and can’t wait to read it.
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The green mile! His best work ever!
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