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Duma Key: A Novel

Duma Key: A Novel

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 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. When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. He wants out. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with 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 for Duma Key, an eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico calls out to him, and Edgar draws. Once he meets Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman with roots tangled deep in Duma Key, Edgar begins to paint, sometimes feverishly; 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.
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

Price Range: $17.49 - $49.95

Duma Key: A Novel

User Reviews

Best King Book In Years!
rating: 5

Stephen King once said that his works were the literary equivilent of "a Big Mac and fries". I could not disagree more. In the long run, I think Mr. King will be considered one of the more important writers of our time. He is a master at suspense, character development, and pacing. Duma Key ranks up there with some of his other masterpieces (the Stand, the Shining, It...)

The characters in Duma Key are so well developed. In some cases, Wireman and Elizabeth Eastlake may be the best King has come up with. I totally was hooked by them, cared about them, and genuienly wanted to find out what was coming. The setting of the Florida Keys in a breath of fresh air, considering most of King's works are set in Maine and New England. I love the ending at the delapidated mansion....just wonderful! I can't recommend it enough!

Durma Key
rating: 5

Great book by Stephen King. One of his better books in the last few years. His characters and story telling is back in this book.

Chilly Keys
rating: 5

Duma Key: A Novel

The chill is back. Though always enjoyable and masterful, it has been awhile since I got a real creepy chill reading a Stephen King Novel. Duma Key accomplishes this on more than one occasion. Vintage King with intriging characters and spectacular storylines. I couldn't put this book down for the last two hundred pages. My kindle thumb did not want to wait for my eyes to finish the page.

King outdoes himself
rating: 5

Early Stephen King books were genre-defining, relatively simple gorefests that bridged the gap between horror junkies and the general reading public.

Somewhere in there, King started flexing his literary aspirations, and the last twenty years have been inconsistent. King's voice is always very evident and well-developed, but he's struggled to find that perfect balance between experimentation, ambition and pulse-pounding entertainment.

Books like Blaze have shown that King can boil pots with the best of them, while more complicated outings like Bag of Bones have shown a tremendous capacity for literary writing, but at the expense of a forward-moving plot.

I would call Dumas Key the first perfect blend of the old King with the new. The story is complex, multi-layered, and epic, as with most of his more cerebral works. And yet? It's fast-paced, emotionally stirring, and damned interesting to boot.

Narrator Edgar Freemantle is sympathetic without being a goody two shoes. The finale is bittersweet and unpredictable. And, like most of King's best work, the characters exercise a level of ingenuity that doesn't leave the reader rolling his eyes and asking "Why doesn't he just _____?"

If you don't like horror, or have already decided that you don't like King, this might be the book that changes your mind.

Hopefully, King will continue to write books of this quality, and Dumas Key signifies the beginning of a new golden age in his enormously prolific writing career.

By far one of HIS BEST!
rating: 5

i am an avid Stephen King Reader. I am one of his constant readers he speaks about. I have been reading his stuff since I was about 9 when I found It in my grandmothers old library. I have to say this book is very personal and very much him. I can see the way he has matured and his thinking has changed. It has alot more soul than most of his recent books. I couldn't put it down and i wished it would have been longer. I WANT MORE STEPHEN!!! GREAT JOB!

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Duma Key: A Novel