Article: Duma Key BOOKS / Fiction

Janet Maslin The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
01-23-2008
Duma Key BOOKS / Fiction
Byline: Janet Maslin The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES

Duma Key

By Stephen King
611 pages. $28. Scribner.

Reviewed by Janet Maslin

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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.

But King's use of horror is not what it used to be. It may still be the ...

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