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Article: On form? Chilling: Best selling author Stephen King.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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Byline: GEOFFREY WANSELL
DUMA KEY by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton, [pounds sterling]18.99)
WHAT'S THE PLOT?
MILLIONAIRE construction boss Edgar Freemantle is injured in a accidentinjuries so severe that he loses his right arm and smashes his hip.
Out of his mind with pain, he stabs his wife Pam with a knife and tries tostrangle her with his one remaining arm. Not long afterwards, she asks him fora divorce.
Freemantle's psychologist recommends a 'geographical' rehabilitationa change of location that might just give his broken life a fresh startso he rents a house for a year on the barely inhabited Duma Key off the ...