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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Duma Key by Stephen King. 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. You need Duma Key. 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, Duma Key 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 Duma Key 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. Get A Copy. More Details Original Title. Xander KamenJack Cantori Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your Duma Key thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Duma Keyplease sign up. Lynn Egger Reading it now. Holds my interest and as others have said - this book has very likeable characters and I w …more Reading it now. Holds my interest and as others have said - this book has very likeable characters and I want them all to be happy and thrive--BUT this is a Stephen King book and I'm a huge fan who has lost many "friends" to his writing so I'm not real optimistic about all of them surviving and thriving! Fremantle is the same last name as Mother Abigail in The Stand Vicki G I don't think he's related since Mother Abigail was black, wasn't she? See all 16 questions about Duma Key Key…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Duma Key. Feb 08, Kevin Kuhn rated it really liked it Shelves: horror. Thirty below, not windchill, just straight up bone chilling cold. We also got plenty of accompanying snow. In this page beast, King still transported me to burning sandy beaches and dangerous tropical storms. It begins with a construction-site accident, a man horrifically injured and the corresponding confusion, loss, pain, and brutal recovery that accompanies such an accident. King published this book injust about nine years after his experience with a terrible accident that led to his own vicious Duma Key and ruthless recovery, after a van struck him on one of his walks. He clearly draws on his Duma Key experience and it makes his writing on pain and suffering honest and raw. Somehow the story feels familiar yet extremely different. The familiarity comes from a variety of plot lines and themes. A sinister supernatural Duma Key, slowly revealing itself over the course of the story. A protagonist who, like King, is an artist, and finds himself thrust into the spotlight. A rich set Duma Key characters that come together to support the main character in overcoming the Duma Key evil. You can see pieces and parts of this story in many of his other works. However, in many ways, it is one of his more unique books. The location is far from Maine, starting in St. Just this change in scenery creates an extremely different feel than most of his works. The main character is a painter. And while King clearly draws on the similarities of writing, this also Duma Key this story from the many others where the main character is an author. These departures really added to my enjoyment. He also peppers his stories with wonderful observations and little revelations that make his writing so enjoyable. Gulf, I mean. Big enough to drop a lot of things into and watch them disappear. No spoilers, but he did make Duma Key final third of the story hard to Duma Key for me. Duma Key me it made the first two thirds more enjoyable then the end of the book. I loved the characters such as Wireman and Jack. And Wireman is this unique, kindred spirit, that Duma Key connects with Edger and has wonderful little sayings throughout the story. The three of them make the perfect team and are easy to root for, but also provide genuine concern when they are in peril. In the end, this is another magnificent King ghost story, just one with a ghost ship and buried treasure. One where you feel like your friend Stephen is telling you, fireside during a thunderstorm. This is another example of why I think so many people have such affection for King. View all 37 comments. Debbie Such a good review! And I am a big Stephen King fan, so I agree that leaving Maine out of the atmospheric mix was so different! But it turns out that Duma Key a good review! But it turns out that Maine is not Duma Key to spookiness. I loved this one too! Kevin Kuhn Debbie Duma Key "Such a good review! But it Duma Key wrote: "Such a good review! I loved Mar 03, Johann jobis89 rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. 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 Duma Key quiet stretch of the coast where he has rente "We can't imagine time running out, and God punishes us for what we can't imagine. He leaves behind his wife and two daughters and heads off to Duma Key, a stunning but eerily quiet Duma Key of the coast where he has rented a house. Very quickly upon his Duma Key, he encounters the charismatic Wireman and the old lady he looks after - Elizabeth Eastlake. Although suffering from dementia, Elizabeth's tragic and heartbreaking history begins to Duma Key, while at the same time, Edgar finds himself able to paint striking, haunting pictures. However, the Duma Key to paint such pictures seems to come from some other outside Duma Key It's been a while since I posted a book review - three weeks to read Duma Key! But let me emphasise that this was due to being busy and not because I wasn't engrossed in this story. This book is held with high regard amongst the King community Duma Key bookstagram and pretty soon after starting this book, I realised why. This book easily has two of King's most likeable characters in Edgar and Wireman. What a duo. Experience Stephen King Duma Key Novel in Real Life

No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. And Kamen suggests something else. You need hedges The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the Duma Key rattling of shells on the beach call Duma Key to him, and Edgar draws. Duma Key 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. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory, and Duma Key nature of the supernatural—Stephen King gives us yet another novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying. Stephen King Duma Key the author of more than sixty Duma Key, all of them worldwide bestsellers. By clicking 'Sign me up' I acknowledge that Duma Key have read and agree to the privacy policy and terms of use. Must redeem within 90 days. See full terms and conditions Duma Key this month's choices. Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love. Sign up and get a free eBook! About The Book. About The Author. Stephen King. Product Details. Resources and Downloads. Get a FREE e- book by joining our mailing list today! More books from this author: Stephen King. See more by Stephen King. You may also like: Fiction Staff Picks. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! See More Categories. Your First Name. Zip Code. Thank you! Duma Key | Book by Stephen King | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster

The book reached No. The dust jacket features holographic lettering. Wealthy Minnesotan building-contractor Edgar Freemantle barely survives a severe work-site accident wherein his truck is crushed by a crane. Freemantle loses his right arm, and suffers severe head injuries impairing Duma Key speech, vision, and memory. During his long recovery, Edgar Duma Key suicidal thoughts and violent abusive mood swingsspurring his wife to file for divorce. On the advice of his psychologist, Dr. Kamen, Edgar relocates southward, renting a beach house on the island of Duma Key, off Florida's coast. Kamen further advises Freemantle to rekindle his onetime sketching hobby as a Duma Key. Edgar retains local college student Jack Cantori as part-time shopper and personal assistant; soon after, Freemantle meets and befriends the island's other full-time residents, Duma Key heiress Elizabeth Eastlake sufferer of final-stage dementia, whose family trust owns most of the islandand Duma Key live-in attendant, Jerome Wireman, himself a once-gifted attorney whose wife and daughter's tragic deaths led him to unsuccessfully attempt suicide via gunshot wound. Decades-old paranormal phenomena revisit the island as Freemantle delves obsessively into his art. Edgar creates with furious energy, lapsing into a semi-conscious haze; his paintings and sketches capture psychic visions, revealing his ex-wife's romantic Duma Key, his Duma Key suicidal depression, and his younger daughter Ilse's fleeting marital engagement. Later, Freemantle uses his newfound artistic powers to manipulate the outside world, healing Wireman's degenerating neurological condition, and suffocating a child murderer in his jail cell. During Ilse's visit to Duma Key, the father-daughter duo drive to a disused, overgrown section of the island, where colors seem unnaturally vivid, Duma Key Ilse becomes violently ill. Elizabeth Eastlake warns Edgar via telephone conversations that Duma Key "has never been a lucky place for daughters," and that his paintings should be sold to multiple geographically-distant buyers, lest their otherworldly power grow too concentrated or dangerous. Freemantle's artworks become more vivid and distressing, featuring ship-and-seaside compositions whose vessel and mysterious red-cloaked Duma Key draw nearer to shore in each successive painting. Elizabeth grows alternately lucid then incoherent as her dementia worsens, scattering her beloved china figurines, murmuring that "The table is leaking," and repeatedly urging Wireman to throw one faceless figurine into her koi pond. In a moment of chilling clarity, Eastlake asks Edgar if he has begun painting the ship yet. Freemantle's paintings attract Duma Key acclaim. He hosts an Duma Key exhibition and accompanying lecture at an upscale Sarasota gallery, gaining a devoted audience including Edgar's visiting loved ones and yielding half a million in sales. Elizabeth Eastlake makes a rare appearance at said exhibition; upon seeing Edgar's ship-and-seaside Duma Key, she reacts violently, making cryptic references to her childhood playthings and long-drowned sisters, warning that "She has grown so strong," "The table is leaking," and "Drown her back to sleep," before suffering an incapacitating and ultimately fatal stroke. Freemantle notices previously-unseen details in his work: the ship's Duma Key sails, the child-toys littering its decks, Duma Key faces hiding in its foamy wake. Narrative timelines interweave as Duma Key Freemantle's present-day nightmare parallels the Eastlake familial tragedy. Young Elizabeth, head-wounded in a childhood horse-carriage accident, turns to sketching and scribbling as a means of recuperation. An outside presence -- "Perse"—speaks to Elizabeth, sometimes in her mind, sometimes through her rag-doll, filling her with knowledge, and reality-altering powers, and a gradual infiltration of sinister urges. Elizabeth directs her bootlegger father to a pile of ship-debris in the shallows, unearthing a red-cloaked porcelain figurine. The girl's sketches grow progressively more alien Duma Key malevolent, until, driven by fear, she rebels against Perse, provoking the entity's wrath, after which Elizabeth's twin sisters are lured into the ocean to drown. Only Elizabeth's nursemaid, Melda, takes direct action; as Perse's drowned-sister-things move beachward, the governess holds Duma Key off by means of silver jewelry, buying precious moments with her life while Elizabeth neutralizes the Perse-statuette. Freemantle faces similar otherworldly dangers while unraveling the Eastlake mystery. Duma Key returns home to find "Where our sister? Edgar then Duma Key that those in possession of his artworks either Duma Key, or are possessed and driven to murderous deeds by "Perse. As Edgar, Jack, and Wireman race to discover the secret of mad Persephone 's rise and subsequent banishment, the ghost ship's undead passengers return for them. Fighting their way to the island's overgrown region—Heron's Roost, the original Eastlake manor—the trio locate the Perse-carving, trapped in fresh as Duma Key to her native salt water, and sealed in a water-filled Duma Key keg of table whiskey, in which a crack has formed during the passage of years "the table is leaking". Edgar returns the figurine to fresh-water slumber, and faces down one final Perse-temptation, Duma Key the face of his drowned daughter Ilse. Freemantle and Wireman then fly north, to Minnesota, where they drop the statuette into Lake Phalen's freshwater depths, to sleep undisturbed. Edgar Freemantle then commences his final painting: a massive tropical storm, destroying Duma Key. There are a large number of minor characters in the book who have only passing significance to the main characters or to the plot of the book, including large numbers of friends and family from Edgar's "other life" as well as Wireman's family and boss, a number Duma Key characters with loose association to the two, and the various people who rent houses on Duma Key during the tourism season. Critics mainly liked Duma Key book. King told USA Today that "a lot of today's reviewers grew up reading my fiction. Most of the old critics who panned anything Duma Key wrote are either dead or retired". The New York Times critic Janet Maslin called the novel "frank and well grounded" and Duma Key the brevity and imagery of the novel, as well as the furious pace of the last third. Richard Rayner in the Los Angeles Times called the novel a "beautiful, scary idea" Duma Key gritty down-to-earth characters. A film adaptation was in development but the project has stalled. 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