One came up empty, but the other had breakfast in his bill.

Then they folded their wings and dropped like stones. I suspect its as much about the art of writing as it is the art of painting. Seventy or eighty yards beyond us, two fat pelicans drew a line across the morning. Here Edgar walks out in the morning and steps into the silky surge of the surf: 'First the lift that made me feel as if I'd magically dieted-off twelve pounds or so, then the backrun that pulled sand out from between my toes in small, tickling whirlpools. And Edgar and Wireman enjoy the same 'man-law' rapport that Travis McGee and his buddy Meyer do in MacDonald's tales.Įdgar responds to his new Florida landscape - the light and weather, the sounds of surf and the lush tangle of unfamiliar plants - with a fresh, perceptive eye. Edgar, much like MacDonald's hero, Travis McGee, has a brusque, stoic surface easily penetrated to expose the sensitive artistic nature within. MacDonald, whose Florida mysteries are much admired by King. I think as long as you get the main components of the painting, it would work 2. He paints gorgeous sunsets as background, overlaid with surreal, enigmatic images - roses, shells, ghostly ships and tennis balls - that recall the paintings of Salvador Dali, who once stayed a turn in Big Pink.'Duma Key' is King's first story set in Florida, and it is in part a homage to novelist John D. His contemporary art painting Crimson Tide was the inspiration for Author Stephen King’s novel Duma Key. With the paintings being described as surreal in nature, I think they could show it and do whatever they wanted There’s a couple YouTube videos of peoples interpretations of the paintings and they’re all pretty good. But what begins as therapy turns into high art. Duma Key is not just a novel for the fans, but a cathartic response from King over his near-death accident in 1999 no doubt he relived his agonizing recovery while writing about Freemantle, and yet it is because of this firsthand experience, that Duma Key feels much more personal and empathetic. His only neighbors are the old woman who owns the island, Elizabeth, and her caretaker, Wireman, a 'burnt-out case' of a lawyer with a gift for fortune cookie aphorisms. By of 'Duma Key' we find ourselves in Edgar's second life, settled in 'Big Pink,' a rambling beach house on an obscure Florida Key that looks west over the Gulf of Mexico.

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