He also uses it to enact justice on a rapist and murderer by killing him in his prison cell. He uses his power to remove a bullet stuck in Wireman’s cranium from a past suicide attempt. As Edgar continues to draw and paint, he realizes that his images are not necessarily reflections of existing reality, rather, they influence reality. Through Wireman, he learns that Elizabeth owns half of Duma Key, and is rumored to be in an ownership dispute over the rest. He befriends a middle-aged man, Jerome Wireman, Elizabeth’s in-home helper. Over the coming weeks and months, Edgar begins to feel better. Because Elizabeth is known to have Alzheimer’s disease, Edgar ignores the warning. Something about the island makes Ilse extremely sick later, Elizabeth tells Edgar that Duma Key brings sickness to daughters. When Ilse comes to visit, they drive together through the island, passing an old woman named Elizabeth Eastlake. Through the spontaneous images he creates, he discovers that his youngest daughter, Ilse, is engaged and that his ex-wife is sleeping with his former accountant. Edgar soon starts to experience premonitions through his art. He hires a college student, Jack Cantori, as his aide, and resumes some old hobbies, including drawing. He rents it out for a year, naming it “Big Pink” for its bright pink color. In a travel brochure, Edgar finds a beach house for rent on a small island called Duma Key. Kamen, recommends that he take a yearlong retreat in order to rest and recover from his physical and mental trauma. During a particularly bad mood swing, he threatens to kill his wife with a plastic utensil his wife divorces him, citing this moment as the moment she decided to leave him. In addition, he now has problems with vision, memory, and speech, and the trauma has made him suicidal and psychologically unstable. A falling crane crushed his truck, and the resulting blunt trauma to his arm required its amputation. Duma Key begins as Edgar Freemantle is recovering from his freak accident at the construction site. The novel received mixed reviews due to its seeming departure from some of King’s idiosyncratic horror themes and its lengthy focus on characterization. His hope for a peaceful year away from home is undermined by his inexplicable bouts of rage and other extreme behaviors that drive away his wife and soon start to change his life in other ways.

After the accident, Edgar moves to a sparsely inhabited island off the coast of Florida, where he starts to develop psychic powers.

An extension of his earlier short story, “Monday,” it follows Edgar Freemantle, a construction worker from Minneapolis who narrowly misses death in a freak accident, losing an arm and suffering brain damage. Duma Key (2008) is a fantasy-horror novel by American author Stephen King.

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