BOOK REVIEW | STEPHEN KING
Duma Key by Stephen King — An Audiobook Review
A terrible work accident instigates a lifestyle change that helps reveal an untapped talent for a dormant artist. What could be terrifying about that? Go to Duma Key, and you will find out.
Edgar Freemantle is a self-made American success story that has life by the horns. He owns a large and profitable construction company and, by all accounts, has a lovely wife and two wonderful daughters, with Ilse, the youngest, regarding him as her idol. Then, as few can manage as well as King, the author takes this perfectly ordinary but better-than-average life and ruins it.
Freemantle finds himself on the wrong side of a work accident, the cause of which, also very realistically, is due to stupidity and chance. Not so long after his accident, Freemantle’s life comes loose at the threads, beginning with his marriage. Scarred for life, Freemantle moves out and happens upon a property-sitting opportunity in the beautiful but isolated stretch of Florida Coast, Duma Key.
Freemantle takes the Duma Key offer on his doctor’s advice for a change of scenery and to do something he loves, and there he awakens a dormant talent for drawing and painting. Sounds quaint and idyllic — holed up in a beautiful setting with ocean sunsets and unpopulated beaches, where a…
