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King's comments on the book

According to www.stephenking.com, in an interview with The Paris Review^[1], he mentioned this as the novel he is currently working on. He described it as being about a character named Edgar Freemantle who loses an arm in an accident and has paranormal phantom limb sensations. There is speculation from King's readers as to a relationship between the main character Edgar Freemantle and Mother Abagail Freemantle from his acclaimed novel the Stand // The Paris Review is an English-language literary magazine based in New York City. ... // Paranormal is an umbrella term used to describe a wide variety of reported anomalous phenomena. ... This article is about the syndrome. ... The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. ... The Stand is a post-apocalyptic science fiction / horror / adventure novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. ...

In an interview with Lilja's Library, King said:

"...it’s about a construction worker who is involved in a terrible accident. He lives in the northern part of the United States, Minnesota, and he’s hurt very badly and loses an arm, sustains head injuries and is not expected to live but he does and he comes out of a coma and because of the head injuries he has uncontrollable rages and memory lapses. It’s very difficult and his wife divorces him so he decides he’s going to move to Florida but he’s also thinking about suicide just because of his pain and because he doesn’t like being angry all the time and this psychiatrist kind of talks him out of it and one of the things he says is, “Is there anything that you do that you can use as a kind of buffer against this depression? Is there any kind of new life for you besides working on buildings?” and this guy says, “I used to draw, I used to paint a little bit” and the guy says, “Well, try that” and he discovers that, after this injury, that he is really a very talented painter and he moves to Florida and he starts to paint these pictures and then strange things start to happen with the pictures. They have this power so that sometimes if he paints things into the world they kind of appear and if he paints things out they disappear, including people. And there is something going on, on this island, this Duma Key that is actually amping that talent up and making it stronger because there is something wrong there. That’s the real basis of the story."^[2]

See also

• "Memory," a related short story by King. King describes it as "the first chapter of Duma Key all kind of dressed up" in the Lilja's Library interview.

Memory is a short story by Stephen King that was originally published in the summer reading issue of Tin House magazine (#28) in July of 2006. ...

External links

• Interview with King in which he discusses Duma Key
• King's official site
• Simon & Schuster Audio Stephen King homepage
• Simon & Schuster Audio Duma Key

Foototes

1. ^ Paris Review, September 15, 2006, pp. 66-101.
2. ^ Lilja's Library interview