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Article: Duma Key By Stephen King
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- February 3, 2008
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Duma Key
By Stephen King
Scribner, 609 pages, $32
Reviewed by Nick Martin
THE protagonist of Stephen King's spooky new novel, a wealthy land developer, loses an arm, gets his brains scrambled and destroys his marriage.
Then the weirdness really starts.
Mangled in a construction accident, Edgar Freemantle moves from suburban St. Paul to a lonely old house on a tiny Florida island, where he suddenly finds a hitherto unknown flair as an artist -- though just who, or what, is guiding his brush strokes is where the spookiness takes over Duma Key.
King, the American horror master who himself was almost killed by a ...