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    Duma Key
    A Novel
    U.S. release date: January 22, 2008




    Duma Key: A Novel
    by Stephen King

    Coming in January (2008 )!

    Edgar Freemantle is a regular guy, a construction worker who suffers a terrible accident—he loses an arm, sustains head injuries, and is not expected to live... but he does live, emerging from his coma as a very changed man.

    Here is how King described the novel in his own words during his long interview with Lilja of Lilja's Library:

    "It's about a construction worker who is involved in a terrible accident... he's hurt very badly and loses an arm, sustains head injuries and is not expected to live but he does and he comes out of a coma and because of the head injuries he has uncontrollable rages and memory lapses.

    It's very difficult and his wife divorces him so he decides he's going to move to Florida but he's also thinking about suicide just because of his pain and because he doesn’t like being angry all the time and this psychiatrist kind of talks him out of it and one of the things he says is, "Is there anything that you do that you can use as a kind of buffer against this depression? Is there any kind of new life for you besides working on buildings?" and this guy says, "I used to draw, I used to paint a little bit" and the (psychiatrist) says, "Well, try that" and he discovers that, after this injury, that he is really a very talented painter...

    ...and he moves to Florida and he starts to paint these pictures and then strange things start to happen with the pictures.

    They have this power so that sometimes if he paints things into the world they kind of appear and if he paints things out they disappear, including people.

    And there is something going on, on this island, this Duma Key that is actually amping that talent up and making it stronger because there is something wrong there.

    That's the real basis of the story."
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    Thanks for finding this Erin, its great.

    Lots of fun new King stuff to see and do.
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    I am so looking forward to this story, as I live in Florida
    and it is set here. Besides it SK!!

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    This sounds like a great premise, I am looking forward to seeing SK flesh it out.

    The older I get the more I wonder about him and these worlds. They show up so often, I think he really believes it. Which is cool as shit because I do to.

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    Ooh, sounds like Patrick Danville meets LOST. I dig it.

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    Ooooh, sounds like it could potentially be another DT connection book...however small.

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    I watched a fascinating doco over here called "Painting the Mind", about exactly what Duma Key is about (minus the Danville powers, of course).

    About two men in their 50s or so who suffer head injuries in an accident and awake with compulsions to draw and paint (aswell as other mood and personality changes) - not that they are terribly good to begin with but the compulsion drives them to draw and paint and create art at almost every waking moment and as the adage goes, practice makes perfect.

    One of them had awakened photographic memories of his childhood town in Italy (which he could now paint with incredible detail), but the funny thing is he could only see the memory in his mind if he physically turned his body and faced a specific direction.

    Fascinating stuff.
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    Definitely looking forward to this.

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    By the way, Memory, the short story originally published in Tin House magazine that was the initial germ of an idea for Duma Key, will be included in the back of Blaze. At least it's in the review copies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron View Post
    Ooh, sounds like Patrick Danville meets LOST. I dig it.
    That's exactly what I thought! I'm so excited that King is doing so much lately!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bev Vincent View Post
    By the way, Memory, the short story originally published in Tin House magazine that was the initial germ of an idea for Duma Key, will be included in the back of Blaze. At least it's in the review copies.
    Thanks Bev, I knew I had heard of this character somewhere. Now I remember reading it in Tin House, I also remember thinking the short story was very depressing. Good but depressing.
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    According to Bev Vincent:
    The official U.S. release date: January 22, 2008.

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    I thought of Patrick Danville too. Theres a few unfinished tales from DT that I've always been curious about...Patrick, Ted, Dinky...

    However, this sounds damn cool all by itself

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    According to liljas library, this-subject to revision, is the cover for Duma Key:


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    Woohoo, I am going to move that to the first post so it shows up on the news page.

    Thanks for the info Jerome
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    Looks like a good cover. After the great combo of the cover and actual book of the hardcover Lisey's Story, it'll be hard to live up to the artwork standards set.
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    Color cover for Duma Key:


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    Wow!! That's beautiful, love the color.

    I should update our news page with that.
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    Yes, that cover is beautiful!

    I love the painter's canvas in lefthand corner, with stuff coming out. Isn't that from Salvador Dali'?
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    check out our current news page with the new image. Its hot as hell.
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    Any idea on who the artist is?

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    Possibly Mark Stutzman. He has done most of the recent covers for King books.

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    If your curious about a preview, there is a chapter exert at the end of Blaze.

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    And its really cool!!

    I had no idea. But it seems like the read is going to have a whole bunch to do with accident and recovery. Probably cathartic for King
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