Duma Key

a novel

mass market paperback, 769 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 28 Novembre 2008 da Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-1-4165-5296-3
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Numero OCLC:
209699556

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On Duma Key, a man who should be dead finds healing in the solitude of painting...but Edgar Freemantle is far from alone.

After a terrible construction site accident severed his right arm, scrambled his mind, and imploded his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation alone and enraged. Renting a house on a stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter off the Florida coast, Edgar slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. And as he heals, he paints - feverishly, compulsively, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. For Edgar's creations are not just paintings but portals for the ghosts of Elizabeth's past...and their power cannot be controlled. (back cover)

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Een van de betere late Stephen King romans

Eigenlijk wilde ik zowel Cujo als Duma lezen na de verhalenbundel Duistere Zaken, het werd Duma.

Ondanks alle kritiek die ik soms heb op de boeken van King vind ik hem een grootse schrijver van verhalen over gewone mensen in ongewone situaties. Bij de bibliotheek denken ze daar anders over. Een exemplaar van Duma moest ik uit het archief halen, Cujo hebben ze helemaal niet in het bezit.

Duma is het boek dat King schreef na Lisey's Verhaal. Die laatste heb ik tot drie keer toe geprobeerd te lezen maar er valt niet doorheen te komen. Het is in mijn ogen King's poging om literatuur te schrijven, mooie zinnen maar het ontbreekt aan spanning.

Duma is gelukkig beter. Voldoende vaart, voldoende spanning, voldoende karakterontwikkeling. En ruim voldoende muziek.

ha recensito Duma Key di Stephen King

Favorite King book in decades

Full confession – I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Stephen King. He is an odd author to me. While I don’t love every one of his books (and in fact, dislike many of them), he is one of those authors that I read everything he puts out. If it’s got his name on it, I usually read it eventually, even if I’m almost 50 years late to the party. Not sure where this comes from, or why I’m so rigorous in my dedication to his books, but for whatever reason, it is the case.

It was not always, however. From the early 2000’s (coincidentally around the time I read Dreamcatcher …. or, maybe not-so-coincidentally), until around 2012, I never read a new Stephen King book. Dreamcatcher was just that bad, and I finally gave up on him after reading all his novels through the 80’s and 90’s. …

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