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Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each 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, “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 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. --back cover
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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
United States, Vietnam, University of Maine, Broad Street, Harwich, Connecticut, New York City, Đông HàTimes
20th century, 1960s, 1966, 1999Showing 10 featured editions. View all 55 editions?
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Hearts in Atlantis
2017-11, Scribner
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Hearts in Atlantis
2001, Pocket Books
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1999, Hodder & Stoughton
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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.
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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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