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| Duma Key - Stephen King |
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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