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Duma Key is a 2008 novel by Stephen King, set in Florida and Minnesota, about a man who gains psychic powers through his art. The novel explores the themes of trauma, redemption, and the supernatural, and features a malevolent entity named Perse.
- Stephen King
- 2008
Jan 22, 2008 · 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.
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Oct 21, 2008 · A horror novel about a man who moves to Florida after a tragic accident and discovers he has a supernatural talent for painting. Read reviews, sample, and buy the book in various formats.
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- Stephen King
Jan 22, 2008 · 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.
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Edgar Freemantle, a Minneapoliscontractor, barely survives a horrific on-site accident where his truck was crushed by a crane. Freemantle's right arm is amputated, and severe injuries to his head cause Edgar to have problems with speech, vision, and memory. As a result, Edgar also has violent mood swings and thoughts of suicide. During one of those...
The novel contains an expansive cast of minor characters while maintaining a rather small circle of central players.
Critical reception was generally positive, with some negative criticism being outweighed on the whole by the positive, a fact noted by USA Today and declared by King in that article as a byproduct of the fact that "[...]a lot of today's reviewers grew up reading my fiction. Most of the old critics who panned anything I wrote are either dead or reti...
Aug 22, 2023 · A bestselling horror novel about a man who paints portals to the supernatural after a tragic accident. Read the book, listen to the audiobook, or watch the Amazon Prime video adaptation of this classic Stephen King story.
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Jan 22, 2008 · Renting a house on Duma Key—a stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter off the Florida coast—Edgar slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick, elderly woman whose roots are tangled deep in this place.
