Duma Key: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743569741 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 18 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great book! Classic Stephen King! Robert L. Adams I bought this based on the recommendations of fellow members in a Stephen King Facebook page. They definitely steered me right in this one. I didn't know what to expect with Stephen King not writing about character in the Northeast United States. I need to have worried. Great storytelling can be placed anywhere.. "This book was a bit of a disappointment for me" according to Purdue Fan. As of this review I'm only approximately 80% complete; however, I doubt the ending will change my opinion of the read. In typical King fashion it's well-written, well paced, and full of unique charactersbut the protagonist doesn't leave me particularly moved and I just don't feel the same attachment to the action/story that I have experienced in his other books.. "King goes "Old School" and produces a gem" according to GameMaker. When I was in college, back in the late 80's I was huge Stephen King fan. I read pretty much all his books that he had done up to that point. But soon after, I felt he started to go downhill fast. One book in particular, Gerald's Game, really put what I thought was the final nail in his coffin as far as I was concerned. Gosh what an awful book. Well, now all the
When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH A terrible 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. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else: "Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico calls out to him, and Edgar draws. Once he meets Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman with roots tangled deep in Duma Key, Edgar begins to paint, sometimes feverishly; many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE. You need hedgeshedges against the night." Edgar leaves for Duma Key, an eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. He wants out. The tenacity of
I know it was excruciating, but it's all pretty academic. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. "I'm thinking of calling it Duma Key," he offered. At the time things went wrong, my wife and I were planning to go and visit her. I will always love that little girl, in spite of all she has cost me. "Sure," I answered. Some things, I say, are better forgotten.Maybe, but that doesn’t matter, either. You have to mark the white. Continue Reading Duma Key. I was one confused American when I came around, but the worst of that passed. I can't remember the quality and pitch of that pain now. It wasn’t academic at the time. That's what Kamen says.When I say I was confused, I mean that at first I