Duma Key

A terrible 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. When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. He wants out. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else:

A terrible 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. When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. He wants out. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else:
"Edgar, does anything make you happy?"
"I used to sketch."
"Take it up again. You need hedges…hedges against the night."

Description: Duma Key is a creation of Horror Mastermind Stephen King,In bestseller King's well-crafted tale of possession and redemption, Edgar Freemantle, a successful Minnesota contractor, barely survives after the Dodge Ram he's driving collides with a 12-story crane on a job site. While Freemantle suffers the loss of an arm and a fractured skull, among other serious injuries, he makes impressive gains in rehabilitation. Personality changes that include uncontrollable rages, however, hasten the end of his 20-year-plus marriage. On his psychiatrist's advice, Freemantle decides to start anew on a remote island in the Florida Keys. To his astonishment, he becomes consumed with making art—first pencil sketches, then paintings—that soon earns him a devoted following. Freemantle's artwork has the power both to destroy life and to cure ailments, but soon the Lovecraftian menace that haunts Duma Key begins to assert itself and torment those dear to him.

Dopo che una gru si abbatte sul suo pickup, Edgar Freemantle deve far fronte a una vita diversa. Devastato nel fisico, e non solo, dapprima cerca di accoltellare la moglie e poi di strangolarla con la mano sinistra (l'altra mano l'ha persa, con tutto il braccio destro, nell'incidente). Apparentemente ristabilito, lascia le sue proprietà alle due figlie e alla moglie, che ha deciso di divorziare da lui, e si stabilisce su una solitaria e paradisiaca costa della Florida, Duma Key, dove affitta una grande villa rosa sulla spiaggia e si scopre una dote inaspettata di pittore.

Duma Key, une île de Floride à la troublante beauté, hantée par des forces mystérieuses, qui ont pu faire d’Edgar Freemantle un artiste célèbre… mais, s’il ne les anéantit pas très vite, elles auront sa peau ! Dans la lignée d’Histoire de Lisey ou de Sac d’os, un King subtilement terrifiant, sur le pouvoir destructeur de l’art et de la création.