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Book Review of Duma Key

Duma Key
Duma Key
Author: Stephen King
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Horror
Book Type: Paperback
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On Duma Key, a man who should be dead finds healing in the solitude of painting....but Edgar Freemantle is far from alone.

After a terrible construction site accident severed his right arm, scrambled his mind, and imploded his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation alone and enraged. Renting a house on a stunningly beautiful and eerily underdeveloped splinter off the Florida coast, he slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with the sick woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. As he heals, he paints compulsively, his talent both a wonder and a weapon....for his creations are not just paintings, but portals for the ghosts of the past and their power cannot be controlled...... a very excellent book.