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Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. 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, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.
In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also 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, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.
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 in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.
And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.
Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave. (jacket)
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Lord of the Flies, somatoform disorders, penance, dormitories, Hearts, The Dark Tower, psychics, Baby Boomer generation, thrillers, Bildungsromans, Manners and customs, suspense, horror, literary fiction, Social life and customs, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Fiction, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction, United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction, Fiction, horror, Maine, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), United states, social life and customs, fiction, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Influence, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Large type books, Fiction, war & military, Horror talesPeople
Willie Shearman, Peter Riley, Carol Gerber, Low Men in Yellow Coats, Bobby Garfield, Ted Brautigan, John Sullivan, Crimson King, Denise Schoonover, Alvin Dark, Ronnie Malenfant, Dieffenbaker, Raymond Fiegler, Lyndon B. Johnson, Stokely JonesPlaces
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Wu wang wo: Hearts in Atlantis
2006, Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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Corazones En La Atlantida / Hearts in Atlantis
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Corazones en la Atlántida
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Corazones En La Atlantida / Hearts in Atlantis
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Hearts in Atlantis. Der Roman zum Film.
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Coeurs perdus en Atlantide
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Conrazones En LA Atlantida
July 2000, Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Corazones en la Atlántida
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Hearts In Atlantis (All You Want to Know)
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Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order.
The stories are about the Baby Boomer Generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening epigraph of the collection is the Peter Fonda line from the end of Easy Rider: "We blew it." All of the stories are about the 1960s and the war in Vietnam, and in all of them the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part.
In this collection:
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Blind Willie
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Hearts in Atlantis
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Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling
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Low Men in Yellow Coats
- Why We're in Vietnam
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