Duma Key

Copertina rigida, 583 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 28 Aprile 2008 da Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:
978-0-340-95219-1
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Numero OCLC:
1193389450

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Edgar Freemantle reached a T-junction in his life's journey when a freak accident cost him his arm... and his marriage. He takes the turning marked Florida — home, as they say, of the newly wed, or nearly dead.

But rather than choosing a typical holiday location, Freemantle is drawn to a beautiful, eerily remote stretch of land off Florida's West Coast: Duma Key, a tangle of banyans, palms and pines next to a deserted beach — uninhabited bar a few houses owned by an old lady named Elizabeth, once a famous patron of the arts.

Encouraged by his youngest daughter, Freemantle discovers a unique talent for painting, starting with the fabulous sunsets. But soon he finds himself experiencing weird phantom pains in his missing arm. And something strange and disturbing is happening with his pictures: they are becoming predictive, even dangerous to those who buy them.

Freemantle must team up …

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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.

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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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