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Publicerades 28 april 2008 av Hodder & Stoughton.

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

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 …

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 with his fellow resident, Wireman, to chart his way through the increasingly disturbing mystery of

Duma Key, where out-of-season hurricanes tear lives apart and a powerful undertow lures lost and tormented souls. Eventually, they will have to discover what really happened to Elizabeth's twin sisters, who disappeared in the 1920s — and the haunting secret to which this strange old lady holds the key. Duma Key is a mesmerizing and compelling story about friendship, and the bond between a father and his daughter. It is also about the power of memory and truth, art and nature. --front flap

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Mauro recenserade Duma Key av Stephen King

Action and adventure with cheesy horror elements.

3 stjärnor

I've been reading Stephen King's novels since I was a kid in the early nineties. But I think I'm done for good now. Don't get me wrong, the Master of Terror is always entertaining, but I find his stories too based into a mundane American landscape (psychological and physical) that doesn't belong to me at all. And his insistence on making the reader cringe with weird use of young kids and such in his plots it's getting on my nerves, honestly. Like some low blows that are way too predictable to be effective.

Nonetheless, Duma Key was, again, entertaining like an obvious Hollywood movie, which resembling an old blanket is always there to comfort you but never to amaze.

I've been reading Stephen King's novels since I was a kid in the early nineties. But I think I'm done for good now. Don't get me wrong, the Master of Terror is always entertaining, but I find his stories too based into a mundane American landscape (psychological and physical) that doesn't belong to me at all. And his insistence on making the reader cringe with weird use of young kids and such in his plots it's getting on my nerves, honestly. Like some low blows that are way too predictable to be effective.

Nonetheless, Duma Key was, again, entertaining like an obvious Hollywood movie, which resembling an old blanket is always there to comfort you but never to amaze.