A terrible accident takes Edgar Freemantles 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 hadnt survived his injuries. He wants out. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else:pIEdgar, does anything make you happy?brI used to sketch.brTake it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night.ipEdgar leaves for Duma Key, an eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico calls out to him, and Edgar draws. Once he meets Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman with roots tangled deep in Duma Key, Edgar begins to paint, sometimes feverishly; many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeths past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.pThe tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory, and the nature of the supernatural: Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.

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