Hearts in Atlantis

by StephenKing (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $12.21

  'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened' (Author's Afterword)

  Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had flooded America's living rooms for a decade.

  Hearts in Atlantis is composed of five linked stories set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.

  Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Hearts in Atlantis will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.24

  'Although it is difficult to believe, the 60s are not fictional; they actually happened' (from the Author's Note). Hearts in Atlantis comprises of five brilliant, interconnected, sequential narratives, each deeply rooted in the 60s and haunted by the Vietnam War: In Low Men in Yellow Coats , 11-year-old Bobby discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest and confront their own collective heart of darkness. In Blind Willie and Why We're in Vietnam , two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era. And in Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling , Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.