![]() ![]() ” Instead, these observations about the small spits of land lying directly west of Sarasota arrive a good 30 pages into the book. This is not how the narrator, Edgar Freemantle, begins Stephen King’s “Duma Key. I only knew one reached it by crossing a WPA-era drawbridge from Casey Key.” The beach is guarded by a waist-high band of sea oats… I knew nothing about the history of Duma Key. Most of it’s uninhabited, a tangle of banyans, palms and Australian pines with an uneven, dune-rumpled beach running along the Gulf edge. The next step takes you to Duma Key, nine miles long and half a mile wide at its widest, between Casey Key and Don Pedro Island. If you had your seven-league boots on, you could step from Longboat to Lido, from Lido to Siesta, from Siesta to Casey. ![]() “There’s a charm-bracelet of keys lying off the west coast of Florida. ![]() Stephen King fans, read on: Here's how you can experience his latest novel, 'Duma Key,' in real life on Florida's Gulf Coast. ![]()
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