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Article: Mr. Chatterbox; This month: Sarasota gets spooky in Stephen King's new Duma Key.("OF COURSE I'M SURE. I READ IT IN ...")
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- Sarasota Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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IT'S NOT OFTEN that a novelist as good as Stephen King gets his claws into Sarasota. In fact, it hasn't happened since John D. MacDonald wrote Condominium back in 1977. But King's new book, Duma Key, is so crammed with local lore and dark Sarasota themes that it goes right to the top of our town's essential reading list.
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MacDonald skewered Sarasota with a precise and not very flattering analysis of our greed and general all-around stupidity. Builders cut costs and people ignore hurricanes. With King the enemy is different. It's not human nature, it's what's out there just below the placid surface of the Gulf. His territory is ...