![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() But what begins as therapy turns into high art. 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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