The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential talesâeach deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics and culture.
In Part One, âLow Men in Yellow Coats,â 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 âBlind Willieâ and âWhy Weâre in Vietnam,â 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 hollowâand as hauntedâas their own lives.
And in âHeavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,â this remarkable bookâs denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heartâs desire may await him.
Full of danger and suspense, full of heart, this spellbinding fiction will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely forget. Nearly twenty years after its first publication, Hearts in Atlantis is powerful and astonishingly current.
âYou will see Stephen King in a new light. Read this moving, heartfelt tragedy and weepâweep for our lost conscience.â âBookPage
Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential talesâeach deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics and culture.
In Part One, âLow Men in Yellow Coats,â 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 âBlind Willieâ and âWhy Weâre in Vietnam,â 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 hollowâand as hauntedâas their own lives.
And in âHeavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,â this remarkable bookâs denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heartâs desire may await him.
Full of danger and suspense, full of heart, this spellbinding fiction will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely forget. Nearly twenty years after its first publication, Hearts in Atlantis is powerful and astonishingly current.
âYou will see Stephen King in a new light. Read this moving, heartfelt tragedy and weepâweep for our lost conscience.â âBookPage
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
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Published on
Sep 14, 1999
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Pages
528
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ISBN
9780684844909
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Language
English
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Genres
Fiction / Horror
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
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