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Title	:	Hearts in Atlantis
Author	:	Stephen King
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Film tie-in
Pages	:	Pages: 640 pages
Published	:	2001 by New English Library (first published September 14th 1999)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Fantasy

Hearts in Atlantis

Stephen King

Paperback | Pages: 640 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 81423 Users | 2035 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	Hearts in Atlantis
ISBN:	0340818670 (ISBN13: 9780340818671)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	The Crimson King, American Law Enforcement, Ted Brautigan, Bobby Garfield, Liz Garfield, Carol Gerber, John Sullivan, Peter Riley, Willie Shearman, Ronnie Malenfant
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Collection (2000), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Collection (2000)

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King is the master of horror. The first story hinted at great horror while including enough realism to ring true emotionally. These interlinked stories deal with the loss of innocence that comes from leaving childhood behind using the Vietnam War as a backdrop. This is not a horror story but a gripping tale that displays a deep need for healing within our nation because of our relationship to war/violence.

No one has ever written the joys of boyhood better than Stephen King. That's not what people talk about when they talk about him, but it's true. It's a subject that needs to be written about entirely without pretense and absolutely free of language too large for ball games and playing in the mud. Between this one, The Body, and It, the good reader will find himself transported into the actual moments of young pleasure, before girls take over and ruin the perfect freedom of true youth. Not that

I definitely enjoyed this collection of stories more on my second read through but Hearts in Atlantis still remains on the bottom of the list of King story collections for me. I just don't find myself wowed by these like I normally do with his work and found them a bit too slow paced. But I don't want it to sound like I hated this collection because I really didn't! I was able to appreciate these stories much more this time around because when I first read Hearts in Atlantis, I hadn't read the

Little did I know what kind of Pandoras box I opened by reading this novel! I came upon it by accident:In 2003 I accompanied a nephew of mine (then 9 years old) on a chess-tournament because his father didnt have time. So I got stuck for a few days in the small (very small!) town called Wurmannsquick in Lower Bavaria with nothing to do while the kids were playing chess (which lasted pretty much all day). I went to the local supermarket, which was more like a minimarket, to see if I could find

King's last book of the 90's is probably the best surprise of my King reading project this far. This book is a display of enchanting storytelling, so good that long passages of little happening and small inconsistencies or lacking explanations simply do not matter at all. The first and longest story is a brilliant one about small-town kids, echoing Ray Bradbury, Dan Simmons' Summer of Night and Kings' own It, The Body and numerous others of course. A perfect blend of kids real, imagined and

If I could give six stars to this book, I would. And seven. And eight...And nine. And ten...

I read this in 2013, but it's been on my mind a lot lately. This book is very special. I placed it on my favorites list today. It's a collection of stories, and the themes seem to be the mystery of how life changes as you get older, how experiences change us and make us into who we become. A film adaption was made. It's superb. The film made me cry. It's based on the first short story, which is also a tie in with the Dark Tower series. An old man meets a boy and they become friends. The old man