About
after a crane crashes self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle’s pickup truck and his body, he launches into a new life. His wife has asked for a divorce he attacks her with a plastic knife ( He has lost his rational brain in the accident). He divides his wealth equally and sets off to Duma Key, which is a remote stretch of the Florida coast. He begins to paint and many of his paintings seem to have the power that cannot be controlled.
In the Flap:
A dreadful construction site injury takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his his head, leaving him {} but anger because he starts the ordeal of rehab. A union that produced two amazing daughters abruptly finishes, and Edgar starts to wish that he had not endured the injuries which might have murdered him. He desires. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, indicates a"geographic cure," a brand new life remote from the Twin Cities and also the construction company Edgar grew out of scratch. And Kamen proposes something else. "Edgar does whatever make you happy?" "I was able to sketch" "Take this up again. You want hedges... Hedges from the evening" Edgar leaves Minnesota to get a leased home on Duma Key, a superbly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida shore. The sun setting to the Gulf of Mexico along with the tidal rattling of cubes on the shore call out to himand Edgar draws. A trip from Ilse, the girl he dotes on, begins his motion from isolation. He meets a kindred soul in Wireman, a man unwilling to show his own wounds, then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old girl whose origins are tangled profound in Duma Key. Today Edgar paints, occasionally feverishly, his bursting talent both a miracle and a weapon. Many of the paintings possess a power which can't be controlled.What makes this book stand out?
This book is a multi-layered work of art.
Read it for
The book is gripping and has unexpected ending and has a lot of suspense
Don't read it for
It is not riveting or a page- turner
Brief about Author Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King.
Following his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mom. Components of his youth were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was in the moment, also at Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, to get great. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with older age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the care of those. Other household members provided a little home in Durham and fiscal aid. Following Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King discovered work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential center for the emotionally challenged. From his sophomore year in the University of Maine in Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the college paper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He came to encourage the anti-war motion on the Orono campus, coming at his position from a conservative perspective the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, using a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school degree. A draft board evaluation immediately post-graduation discovered him 4-F on grounds of elevated blood pressure, restricted eyesight, horizontal feet, and punctured eardrums. He met Tabitha Spruce from the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, in which they both worked as students; they wed in January of 1971. As Stephen was not able to find placement for a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a brief story sale to men's magazines. Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Through the first years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to magazines. Many were assembled in the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies. In the autumn of 1971, Stephen started teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on books. Read More...