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Stephen King talks about his new book, Duma
Key.
Book Description:
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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