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Duma Key

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Call no.
: EF 813.51/KIN
Author
: Stephen King
Contributor
: Mabblukool Anak Ramler
Summary
This novel is about Edgar Freemantle who has moved from Minnesota to Duma Key, somewhere in Florida coast after the construction accident. Edger who has loses his right arms and gone through a divorce, moved to this beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter to start fresh with his life as suggested by his psychiatrist described as a "geographic cure”. He starts sketching as it is what he loves the most and he is very good at it. However, his painting seems to have “more” to them. He also finds friendship with Wireman, a kindred spirit who seeking refuge there as a caretaker for Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. The painful past memories of Elizabeth have reappear causing them to face the evil spirit called the Perse.