This all makes me want to, rather than a dead sort of word like "literary," apply to King what someone, if I remember rightly, said about Ellington, "He knew what music was for." King knows what a novel is for. Hard-won insight into what makes us human, how we deal with time, loss, fear of loss (Since when have you taken the chance to make friends with an 86 year old woman?), the mysterious tangle of creativity. Some strengths of Duma Key: Chararacters that became, at least to me, more real as friends than some people I know. 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. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. 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. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico calls out to him, and Edgar draws. You need hedges.hedges against the night."Įdgar leaves for Duma Key, an eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else: When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for FictionĪ 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.
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