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The Duma Key (edició 2008)

de Stephen King

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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Fiction *Don't miss the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times* bestselling author Stephen King about what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached...** /> No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site 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. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. "Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night." Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory, and the nature of the supernatural�??Stephen King gives us yet another novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifyi… (més)

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Títol:	The Duma Key
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King's Dear Constant Readers: October 2013’s SK Flavor of the Month – Duma Key	7 no llegits / 7	PaperbackPirate, juliol 2018
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Sarà che ho frequentato quelle isolette della Florida che danno sul golfo del Messico e ammirato quei rossi tramonti che incendiano l'orizzone, ma questo romanzo mi ha veramente appassionato.
Purtroppo qualcuno l'ha trovato noioso ma in realtà tutte le oltre 700 pagine sono indispensabili a delineare personaggi e avvenimenti che via via si fanno sempre più avvincenti.
Sicuramente i postumi dell'incidente che ha coinvolto King nel 1999 hanno influito (positivamente) nello sviluppo della trama e nella creazione del protagonista.
Lo consiglio anche a chi non avesse mai letto nulla di King: sicuramente lo troverà un bel romanzo! (

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ginsengman | Mar 22, 2024 |

(2008)audio) Very good story of a construction company owner who is badly injured on a job site. He is in dispair and moves to Florida on Duma Key. Almost at once he is able to paint quality artwork. But it has a dark side as he can predict the future, then cause things to happen. Turns out he is being haunted by a demon in the form of a 19th century doll that is very protective of the Key. (PW) 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 paintingsÂ¥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.

derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |

I loved this book far more than I expected. It was a simple story at first, and like most of King's works, there was a lot of dialogue and text but not a lot of events in parts. That being said, the characters were interesting and the storyline kept me reading. I love wireman! (

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HauntedTaco13 | Dec 29, 2023 |

Edgar is in an accident and loses one of his arms and he is viciously angry all the time. Enough so that his wife (after he tries to strangle her, which he doesn’t even remember) tells him she wants a divorce some months later. His doctor then suggests he head to Florida to try clearing his head elsewhere, so he rents a place on the beach in Duma Key, Florida. As he walks daily, he sees in the distance an elderly woman and a man, apparently her caretaker. Edgar eventually becomes friends with the two of them, while at home he learns he has a talent for drawing and painting… something he never knew about before. But the drawing and painting seem to overtake him when he’s doing it; not only that, it seems his paintings tell him things he couldn’t possibly know, things that really come to happen or have already happened.

Overall, I’m considering this “ok”. Some parts I liked more than others, but art is not my thing, including reading about it. There were shorter chapters in italics to tell us those chapters are from another perspective, but large sections in italics often lose my interest, as did these chapters, unfortunately. (

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LibraryCin | Dec 20, 2023 |

I really liked this book - with King you always feel as if you know each character personally. I wouldn’t say this is the best King novel I’ve read but every King book is going to either make the reader happy or disappointed…..no inbetween.
After reading this book I don’t think I will ever take up drawing/painting or go to the Florida Keys lol. (

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mazda502001 | Aug 10, 2023 |

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Great book! SK always brings it home to me!!

afegit per Sujo2 | editaHuman Being, SJ Darling (Jun 9, 2012)

Sometimes, you hardly know where to begin. And so it is with "Duma Key," latest in a gloriously long line of tales from the uber-popular Stephen King.

afegit per stephmo | editaPittsburgh Post-Gazette, Allan Walton (Jan 27, 2009)

There are bad accidents, and there are horrible accidents, and horror novelist Stephen King knows about the worst kind.

afegit per stephmo | editaUSA Today, Carol Memmott (Jan 22, 2008)

Stephen King’s “Duma Key” ventures to an all-but-uninhabited Florida island where the shells groan at high tide, tennis balls appear unexpectedly, foliage grows ominously quickly, and at least one heron flies upside-down. Given this combination of author and setting, it’s inevitable that something terribly undead will show up before the book is over.

afegit per stephmo | editaNew York Times, Janet Maslin (Jan 21, 2008)

When Stephen King wrote Misery in 1987, making the hero a writer was an unusual departure for him. Recently, however, centring his novels on creative types has become a habit. In Cell, the protagonist is a comic-book artist. Lisey’s Story involves a dead author whose widow struggles to protect his legacy. And Duma Key’s narrator, Edgar Freemantle, is a painter whose work gives him paranormal powers – to know everything about people hundreds of miles away, to predict events, even to heal or kill someone.

afegit per stephmo | editaLondon Times, John Dugdale (Jan 20, 2008)

If you've read most of Stephen King's past works, you'll get a kick out of the opening line of "Duma Key," his new effort hitting bookstores this week.

King signals to his Constant Readers, as he calls us, that whatever flaws his protagonist might have — and they are plentiful in this tale — he would wind up trying to do the right thing. Our hero's name is Edgar Freemantle, and it's no small accident he shares his surname with the savior-like figure in King's epic novel, "The Stand."

afegit per stephmo | editaSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, Amanda St. Amand (Jan 20, 2008)

Remember those scary little sisters from The Shining?

They're baa-aack.

And this time they're in Florida. They, or something like them, are leaving tiny wet footprints in a prime gulffront beach house on Duma Key, which lies just south of Casey Key, along the Southwest Florida coast.

afegit per stephmo | editaSt. Petersburg Times, Colette Bancroft (Jan 20, 2008)

Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. Aside from some recent tedious diversions into Gothic westerns and B-movie cellphone zombies, he's the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door. His latest novel, "Duma Key," is a welcome return to that kind of narrative.

afegit per stephmo | editaBoston Globe, Erica Noonan (Jan 19, 2008)

On June 19, 1999, Stephen King was walking along the shoulder of Route 5 near Center Lovell, Maine, when a careless driver in a van knocked him 14 feet off the highway, fracturing his leg in several places, breaking his hip and collapsing his lung, among other injuries. After five operations in 10 days and a three-week stay in the hospital, the author advanced to months of excruciating physical therapy.

afegit per stephmo | editaRocky Mountain News, Mark Graham (Jan 18, 2008)

Art and the effects of physical trauma take center stage in Stephen King's fiction these days, shadowed perhaps by his own near-fatal accident almost nine years ago. With a hero crippled on the job and then tormented by a demonic spirit in recovery, King's new novel, "Duma Key," is a tale of conflict between the forces of horror and the redemptive power of creativity.

afegit per stephmo | editaThe Washington Post, Brigitte Weeks (Jan 16, 2008)

...While not alike in plot, this book has a feel of such books as Bag of Bones and the more recent Lisey's Story and is essential for any popular fiction or King collection.

afegit per CurrLee33 | editaLibrary Journal, Carolann Curry (Jan 1, 2008)

I was about a quarter of the way into Stephen King’s Duma Key and feeling a sense of growing dread and dark foreboding when I came upon this passage spoken by the elderly property owner Elizabeth Eastlake.

afegit per stephmo | editaJanuary Magazne, Ali Karim

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Nom de l'autor	Càrrec	Tipus d'autor	Obra?	Estat
Stephen King	—	autor primari	totes les edicions	calculat
Rekiaro, Ilkka	Traductor	autor secundari	algunes edicions	confirmat
Simmons, Joie	Autor de la coberta	autor secundari	algunes edicions	confirmat
Slattery, John	Narrador	autor secundari	algunes edicions	confirmat

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Premis

Audie Award (Finalista – Ficció – 2009)

Black Quill Award (Guanyador – Dark Genre Novel of the Year Reader's Choice – 2008)

Black Quill Award (Nominat – Dark Genre Novel of the Year – 2008)

Black Quill Award (Nominat – Best Dark Genre Book Trailer – 2008)

Bram Stoker Award (Nominat – Novel·la – 2008)

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Amazon.com Best Books (Mystery and Thriller – 2008)

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Memory...is an international rumor.
--George Santayana

Life is more than love and pleasure,
I came here to dig for treasure.
If you want to play you gotta pay
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We all came to dig for treasure.
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Love conveys its own psychic powers, doesn't it? (Edgar Freemantle)

Parenthood is the greatest of the Hum a few bars and I’ll fake it skills. (Edgar Freemantle)

I can do this. (Edgar Freemantle)

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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Fiction
Don't miss the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King about what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached...
No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...
A terrible construction site 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. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.
"Edgar, does anything make you happy?"
"I used to sketch."
"Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night."
Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.
The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory, and the nature of the supernatural�??Stephen King gives us yet another novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifyi

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