Hearts In Atlantis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780684853512)

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.

Author: Stephen King
ISBN-10: 0684853515
ISBN-13: 9780684853512
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 09/14/1999
Pages: 530
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.62w x 1.71d
Award: Bram Stoker Awards - Nominee
Award: Bram Stoker Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/1999 pg. 78
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/1999 pg. 988
Booklist 07/01/1999 pg. 1893
Publishers Weekly 07/26/1999 pg. 58
Library Journal 08/01/1999 pg. 140
Entertainment Weekly 09/17/1999 pg. 72
People Weekly 09/20/1999 pg. 62
New York Times 09/12/1999 pg. 10
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2000 pg. 817
Booklist 04/15/2000 pg. 1532
School Library Journal 04/01/2000 pg. 160
Library Journal 05/15/1999