Books: Stephen King’s ‘Duma Key’
January 25th, 2008From the [London] Times, [UK] Independent:
Stephen King’s new novel, “Duma Key,” features a trio of characters with disabilities. Edgar Freemantle, the narrator, is an artist whose work gives him supernatural powers. He lost an arm in an accident and has problems with memory, vision, speech and anger. Wireman, one of Edgar’s neighbors, has chronic illness, and another character, Elizabeth Eastlake, is showing signs of early Alzheimer’s.
From the Independent review:
The scenes following Freemantle’s physical recovery, of his anger and suicidal depression, are the author writing at his absolute best, immediately gripping the reader and putting him on the protagonist’s side. Disability is still a taboo in fiction and film and King deals with it brilliantly …
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