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Duma Key: A Novel
by Stephen King
from Scribner

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Couldn't stop reading
  Stephen King once again proves himself a master with "Duma Key." Fantastic characterization and suspense; masterful exploration of the horrors lurking in seemingly benign places. I particularly enjoyed it because of its exporation of the creative process. Edgar's irresistable urge to paint is, no doubt, an echo of the way Stephen King feels about writing. The ending felt a little rushed. Other than that, great.

• Compares Favorably with King's Early Work
  I must confess that I was blown away by Duma Key. I used to be a huge fan of Stephen King's -- in the days of his classic works Carrie, The Shining, It, The Stand and Salem's Lot. I stopped reading King regularly after he published Pet Sematary which I found repulsive. However, King has restored my faith in his unique storytelling abilities with Duma Key. It is an epic introspective novel about Edgar Freemantle, a man crippled by a terrible accident, whose life (including his marriage) is destroyed by this... more info

• A Story You'd Swear You'd Read Before
  Stephen King's 2008 novel Duma Key is heavily evocative of his work from ten years earlier, Bag of Bones.
  1. The protagonist is a man who amassed a fortune, then suffered a devastating loss
  * Bestselling author loses his wife in 1988; successful building contractor loses his arm and much of his mental capacity in 2008 (and his marriage)
  2. He flees his home base and takes up in an isolated house near water
  * A lake in 1998; the Gulf of Mexico in 2008
  3. He becomes increasingly... more info

• Dumb Key
  Far from King's finest ("The Shining," "Carrie"), "Duma Key" is about a wounded contractor, Edgar Freemantle, who settles on one of the Florida Keys to recuperate. [Plot spoilers follow.] Mysteriously he is seized with the need - and talent! - to draw and paint. He also begins a tedious relationship, conveyed through painfully artificial dialogues, with an elderly woman who owns most of Duma Key, and her caretaker. Freemantle's paintings apparently can cause changes in the real world (healing, killing,... more info

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