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Article: Stephen King's new haunt: Florida.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)(Duma Key)(Brief article)(Book review)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 25, 2008
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Leave it to Stephen King to make the Sunshine State a dark place. Florida, it turns out, encompasses plenty of horrors beyond geriatric traffic jams. King uses "Duma Key" to delve into the question of what fires the imagination and allows artists to create something from nothing.
Included in the pages of "Duma Key": dead sisters crawling from the ooze of a stormy Florida night, menacing shrubs and plants entangled around the acrid remains of a deserted mansion, and a protagonist whose love of painting pops up in the wake of a horrifying construction site accident.
The latter, Edgar Freemantle, loses his right arm but becomes a middle-age painting ...