Duma Key
Literary suspense from the No. 1 bestseller
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4.5 • 81 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
Duma Key is a powerful suspense novel from No. 1 bestseller Stephen King.
When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key, off Florida's coast, to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there.
But Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.
Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir. Secrets of children lost in the undertow, of a ghost ship riding the distant horizon - and a family's buried past reaching long hands into the present.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In bestseller King's well-crafted tale of possession and redemption, Edgar Freemantle, a successful Minnesota contractor, barely survives after the Dodge Ram he's driving collides with a 12-story crane on a job site. While Freemantle suffers the loss of an arm and a fractured skull, among other serious injuries, he makes impressive gains in rehabilitation. Personality changes that include uncontrollable rages, however, hasten the end of his 20-year-plus marriage. On his psychiatrist's advice, Freemantle decides to start anew on a remote island in the Florida Keys. To his astonishment, he becomes consumed with making art first pencil sketches, then paintings that soon earns him a devoted following. Freemantle's artwork has the power both to destroy life and to cure ailments, but soon the Lovecraftian menace that haunts Duma Key begins to assert itself and torment those dear to him. The transition from the initial psychological suspense to the supernatural may disappoint some, but even those few who haven't read King (Lisey's Story) should appreciate his ability to create fully realized characters and conjure horrors that are purely manmade.
Customer Reviews
Artistic genius
I thought that the characters, especially Wireman and Edgar were endearing and believable.
King has a gift in bringing characters to life.
Whilst not particularly scary, I found this a fantastic story that demonstrates Kings full “artistic” range as a story teller.
Brilliant book
Great book, so descriptive. The ending let me down though. It built up for such a scary ending but it made me realise it's almost impossible to portray that through writing. The fact that I still gave 4 stars shows how good the book was though.
Duma Key
My favourite Stephen King book. He shows a side of Florida that most people wouldn’t recognise. This book shows what a good writer he really is.