Hmm, looks like Amazon has a slightly revised cover:
Hmm, looks like Amazon has a slightly revised cover:
Other than the tone being a bit different, it looks the same to me.
There's no artists palette at the bottom with all the stuff on it.
I believe that will be on the back of the wraparound cover.
Oohh...groovy!
That's why I said "slightly"; the colors are rather different as is the lettering (same font though).Originally Posted by Randall Flagg
I just won the following via a BIN:
Duma Key ARC
John
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As soon as I get it, I'll be posting a picture.
John
It's an ARC, of course you did!
Congrats, John.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
Here's a picture of the Duma Key proof.
John
Cool
Hey John, could you photocopy that for me?
Not the cover, the whole thing.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
John
Lilja has this:
I wonder if this is printed in the book? Also, has anyone compared the Tin House and Blaze addendum versions of "Memory"? Are they the same?Duma Key: Where It All Began
A Note from Chuck Verrill, the Longtime Editor of Stephen King
In the spring of 2006 Stephen King told me he was working on a Florida story that was beginning to grow on him. "I'm thinking of calling it Duma Key," he offered. I liked the sound of that--the title was like a drumbeat of dread. "You know how Lisey's Story is a story about marriage?" he said. "Sure," I answered. The novel hadn't yet been published, but I knew its story well: Lisey and Scott Landon--what a marriage that was. Then he dropped the other shoe: "I think Duma Key might be my story of divorce."
Pretty soon I received a slim package from a familiar address in Maine. Inside was a short story titled "Memory"--a story of divorce, all right, but set in Minnesota. By the end of the summer, when Tin House published "Memory," Stephen had completed a draft of Duma Key, and it became clear to me how "Memory" and its narrator, Edgar Freemantle, had moved from Minnesota to Florida, and how a story of divorce had turned into something more complex, more strange, and much more terrifying.
If you read the following two texts side by side--"Memory" as it was published by Tin House and the opening chapter of Duma Key in final form--you'll see a writer at work, and how stories can both contract and expand. Whether Duma Key is an expansion of "Memory" or "Memory" a contraction of Duma Key, I can't really say. Can you?
--Chuck Verrill
The letter isn't printed in the book. If you go to the Amazon page for Duma Key, the opening section of Duma Key is printed next to Memory so you can compare the evolution or devolution of one to the other.
Tiny spoiler about the cover art:
The cover art for the book now makes a lot more sense to me. The main character paints gulf coast sunsets and adds floating items to them to give them a surreal aspect.
That would make more sense then. Is that the only difference? The floating pallet of colors?
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Thanks for letting know Bev!
Didnt see we can download Memory there, or a 30p excerpt of Duma Key!
Yeah, thanks, didn't know about that either. We all have Memory as part of the Blaze hardcover, of course, but it's very cool to get the Duma Key excerpt.
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Duma-Key-Novel-Stephen-King/dp/1416552510/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196796358&sr= 8-1"]Side by side comparison of the opening of Duma Key, and Memory[/ame]
I liked the book so much I put it down for a couple of days, then picked it up again and started it all over.
That's sayin' something.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
I'm waiting for the trade edition to come out before I reread it, but reread it I shall! It's definitely worth it!
John
You guys are definately getting me excited for the release of this one!
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