Duma Key
A Novel
Readers rate it 3.9 (325 on Hardcover)
632 pages · Released Jan 22, 2008 · Simon and Schuster
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Duma Key is a mature Stephen King horror novel featuring significant supernatural terror, psychological trauma, and disturbing imagery that is inappropriate for young readers. While the story explores themes of recovery and human connection, it contains graphic violence, disturbing scenes involving death and decay, and complex emotional trauma that requires teen/adult maturity to process. This is solidly adult horror with occasional dark humor, not a young adult or middle-grade book.
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Master storyteller Stephen King’s classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached. After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle’s right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minn... Master storyteller Stephen King’s classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached. After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle’s right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage. 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. And as he heals, he paints—feverishly, compulsively, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. For Edgar’s creations are not just paintings, but portals for the ghosts of Elizabeth’s past…and their power cannot be controlled…
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- Family & Relationships
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ISBN 9781416552512 · Simon and Schuster