Soon after, Freemantle meets and befriends the island's other full-time residents, octogenarian heiress Elizabeth Eastlake (sufferer of final-stage dementia, whose family trust owns most of the island), and her live-in attendant, Jerome Wireman, himself a once-gifted attorney whose wife and daughter's tragic deaths led him to (unsuccessfully) attempt suicide via gunshot wound.ĭecades-old paranormal phenomena revisit the island as Freemantle delves obsessively into his art. Edgar retains local college student Jack Cantori as part-time shopper and personal assistant. Kamen further advises Freemantle to rekindle his onetime sketching hobby as a restorative. Kamen, Edgar relocates southward, renting a beach house on the island of Duma Key, off Florida's coast. During his long recovery, Edgar experiences suicidal thoughts and violent abusive mood swings, spurring his wife to file for divorce. Freemantle loses his right arm, while suffering severe head injuries impairing his speech, vision, and memory. Wealthy Minnesotan building-contractor Edgar Freemantle barely survives a severe work-site accident wherein his truck is crushed by a crane. The dust jacket features holographic lettering.
It is King's first novel to be set in Florida, as well as the first to be set in Minnesota.
1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. Duma Key is a novel by American writer Stephen King published on January 22, 2008, by Scribner.
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