His rage returns when he is unable to remember even the simplest of words ('Sit in the pal! The chum! The friend!') until he crossfires one thing-usually the word he needs-with something similar. There, 'I can do this' becomes Edgar's mantra as he weans himself off of his cane via slow, steady walks along the beach. Edgar moves from Minnesota to Duma Key, a seemingly quiet island located off of Florida's gulf coast. It is Edgar's struggle to re-learn the most basic of actions, to move on with his 'other life,' as he calls it, that comprises the first 400 of “ Duma Key's” approximately 600 pages, and not a single word is wasted. 'Get out of here, you quitting birch,' Edgar says. Upon his wife's insistence that the event did happen and that it was the catalyst that prompted her to leave him, Edgar is plagued with another bout of rage and flicks his stump at her, noting that it is his way of flipping her off. Problem is, Edgar remembers doing no such thing. A newly-christened amputee, Edgar's new condition has bestowed upon him fits of rage, gaps in his vocabulary, and a wife who decides to leave her husband after he attempts to choke her to death. Just as with Paul Sheldon in “ Misery”, Edgar's story begins shortly after his accident. “ Duma Key” follows the exploits of Edgar Freemantle, a wealthy building contractor who was involved in a near-fatal accident that bartered his right arm in exchange for life. “ Duma Key”, King's newest addition to the 'K' section of bookstores everywhere, is no exception, and effortlessly stands as one of his greatest tales yet. As pages turn, words become sentences, sentences become paragraphs, and paragraphs evolve into chapters that masterfully chronicle a memorable character's life such that readers can believe they have known the character since birth. Any fan of Stephen King's knows not to be intimidated by the largest or smallest of his tomes. Even King himself admits that some critics have never and probably will never 'get' what he does-but that's just fine.