Also, I believe for the novel to work as well as it does, that we must see, really see, what happens there, and in that order. In response to the second, I found the pace of his development added to my involvement in the story, and helped to add the kind of inevitablity, depth, and increasing momentum so present in the best of some of King's work. The protagonist's verbal outbursts can be, unfortunately, all too accurate, and are intended (I believe) to frighten the reader as it does the characters involved-to offend one's sense of how things ought to be. First, the language is entirely appropriate to an adult novel where organic brain trauma is involved. ***Humble Response to a Few Reviews** It's been mentioned in some of these reviews that 1) the language was unnecessarily coarse and 2) that it started slow.
Your voice stood up, offered me a cool drink, and became Wireman to me. *** John Slattery, the reading was brilliant. And finally, it includes a supernatural element that rather than making the story less powerful, merely paints it in King's chosen palette: vivid, disturbing, painful, tender, and essentially real where it matters most, and where perhaps it looms the most dangerous. 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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