Duma Key

A Novel

Hardcover, 611 pages

English language

Published Jan. 21, 2008 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-1-4165-5251-2
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OCLC Number:
966533360

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NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH . . .

A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.

    "Edgar does anything make you happy?"

        "I used to sketch."

    "Take it up again. You need hedges . . .

        hedges against the night."

Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, …

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Subjects

  • Accident victims -- Fiction
  • Supernatural -- Fiction
  • Florida Keys (Fla.) -- Fiction