mass market paperback, 689 pages

English language

Published April 28, 2008 by Hodder.

ISBN:
978-0-340-97803-0
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OCLC Number:
852002091

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4 stars (41 reviews)

When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there.

But Duma has been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.

Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir. Secrets of children lost in the undertow, of a ghost ship riding the distant horizon - and a family's buried past reaching long hands into the present. --back cover

38 editions

Een van de betere late Stephen King romans

4 stars

Eigenlijk wilde ik zowel Cujo als Duma lezen na de verhalenbundel Duistere Zaken, het werd Duma.

Ondanks alle kritiek die ik soms heb op de boeken van King vind ik hem een grootse schrijver van verhalen over gewone mensen in ongewone situaties. Bij de bibliotheek denken ze daar anders over. Een exemplaar van Duma moest ik uit het archief halen, Cujo hebben ze helemaal niet in het bezit.

Duma is het boek dat King schreef na Lisey's Verhaal. Die laatste heb ik tot drie keer toe geprobeerd te lezen maar er valt niet doorheen te komen. Het is in mijn ogen King's poging om literatuur te schrijven, mooie zinnen maar het ontbreekt aan spanning.

Duma is gelukkig beter. Voldoende vaart, voldoende spanning, voldoende karakterontwikkeling. En ruim voldoende muziek.

Review of 'Duma Key' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Duma Key est un pavé dense mais inégal. On arrive sur Duma Key avec Freemantle et on assiste à la découverte de son talent de peintre. Le talent de King nous plonge rapidement dans l’intrigue, complexe, et dans l’ambiance étrange du nouvel environnement d’Edgar. L’art tient une place prépondérante dans le roman. King en profite pour proposer une réflexion sur ce que peut être l’art et le processus créatif. J’ai trouvé beaucoup de longueurs dans le récit, même si on embarque rapidement, les choses mettent du temps à se mettre en place.
Je suis assez perplexe quand à ce roman, j’ai pris plaisir à le lire, mais l’intérêt s’est dilué au fil de pages, à l’approche du dénouement, beaucoup trop caricatural et surnaturel pour coller parfaitement à l’ambiance générale du livre. Trop rapide, trop tiré par les cheveux, trop cliché !
Un King honnête et plaisant mais pas transcendant.

Review of 'Duma Key' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Wow! What can I say, other than "retirement" has seemed to revitalize the Master of Horror. This was a scary, terrifying novel reminiscent of his '70s and '80s masterpieces.

To be honest, I had no idea what to expect going in. The only thing I read about [b:Duma Key|472343|Duma Key|Stephen King|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516WEx5I49L.SL75.jpg|3041864] going in, were the brief pages put in at the end of [b:Blaze|3590|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)|Arthur Conan Doyle|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1164045516s/3590.jpg|1222101] and those did NOT convey any sense of how good this book was going to be. When I first cracked open [b:Duma Key|472343|Duma Key|Stephen King|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516WEx5I49L.SL75.jpg|3041864] and pretty much read the same pages as I read in [b:Blaze|3590|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)|Arthur Conan Doyle|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1164045516s/3590.jpg|1222101], I was expecting a dull, boring story.

Thank god I was wrong!

To S.King fans, you HAVE to pick this up and read it. And to people …

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