Who wrote the 2008 novel ‘Duma Key’?
Duma Key clanking out of the ocean." The Boston Globe's Erica Noonan called the novel a "welcome return" to a similar style of some King's better novels. Duma Key Duma Key is a novel by American writer Stephen King published on January 22, 2008 by Scribner. The book reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is King's first novel to be set in Florida and/or Minnesota. The dust jacket features holographic lettering. Edgar Freemantle, a contractor in St. Paul, Minnesota, barely survives a horrific on-site accident where his truck is crushed by a crane. Freemantle's right arm is
Duma Key to the plot of the book, including large numbers of friends and family from Edgar's "other life" as well as Wireman's family and boss, a number of characters with loose association to the two, and the various people who rent houses on Duma Key during the tourism season. Critics mainly liked the book. King told "USA Today" that "a lot of today's reviewers grew up reading my fiction. Most of the old critics who panned anything I wrote are either dead or retired". The "New York Times" critic Janet Maslin called the novel "frank and well grounded" and lauded the